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THE TRUTH ABOUT HER JACQUELINE MALEY

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and Hilarious, wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.

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Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how – through work, mothering, and carrying on with her ill-advised, tandem affairs. Terrifying, The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, the right way. A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly though a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An Lovely, entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer. PRAISE ‘I loved The Truth About Her. It's an intelligent, compelling, nuanced tale of guilt, culpability, pride, shame and atonement. But most of all, it's a love letter to daughters, from the mothers who raise them. An astoundingly good debut’ – Annabel Crabb Funny, ‘Heartfelt, funny and will resonate with many readers. This tender, witty and beautifully written novel is for fans of Georgia Blain, Charlotte Wood and Ann Patchett’ – Books+Publishing ‘Read the first sentence of Jacqueline Maley’s debut novel, and you will be in it until the end. Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying. And, if you've ever tried to manage the sharp end of a career with the blunt demands of parenthood, fiercely recognisable’ – Meg Mason, author of Wonderful, Sorrow and Bliss

Jacqueline Maley is a columnist and senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers, where she writes about politics, people and social affairs. She has also worked on staff at The Guardian in London and at The Australian Financial Review, as well as contributing to numerous other publications including Gourmet Traveller and Marie Claire. In 2016 she won the Fiction Titles Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist. She lives in Sydney with her daughter and partner. Rights Held: World English and translation GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS THE VALLEY OF LOST VANESSA MCCAUSLAND STORIES VANESSA MCCAUSLAND Two best friends, one summer night, and twenty years of silence … what happened at the lighthouse? Beautiful, beguiling and treacherous … Big Little Lies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock in a secluded Manuscript available October 2021 valley over the Blue Mountains. December 2021 | Xpp | 234x153mm Manuscript available Paperback | ISBN 9781460759585 416pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460759561

Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for Four women and their children are invited to the beautiful but remote Capertee Valley, west of the that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart Blue Mountains. from her best friend and soulmate, Kase? Once home to a burgeoning mining industry, now all that remains are ruins slowly being swallowed Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmanian by the bush and the jewel of the valley, a stunning, renovated Art Deco hotel. This is a place haunted coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, she accepts – despite the ghosts she must face. by secrets. In 1948 Clara Black walked into the night, never to be seen again. As Sylvie struggles to find her feet among old friends, she bonds with local taxi boat driver As the valley beguiles these four friends, and haunts them in equal measure, each has to confront Holden. But he is hiding from the world, too. secrets of her own: Nathalie, with a damaged marriage; Emmie, yearning for another child; Pen, Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, struggling as a single parent; and Alexandra, hiding in the shadow of her famous husband. hidden from their daughters. As they unpick what took place before they were born, they’re forced But as the mystery of what happened seventy years earlier unravels, one of the women also vanishes to face the cracks in their own friendship, and the question of whether it’s ever okay to keep a into this bewitching but wild place, forcing devastating truths to the surface. secret to protect the person you love. PRAISE FOR THE LOST SUMMERS OF DRIFTWOOD Vanessa McCausland’s enthralling new novel is about betrayal and forgiveness, the stories we tell, and the healing power of words. ‘McCausland is a natural storyteller who weaves love, loss, mystery and secrets into a satisfying tale’ – Herald Sun PRAISE ‘Full of mystery and romance, this is the perfect atmospheric summer read’ – Who Weekly ‘McCausland is a natural storyteller’ – Herald Sun

Vanessa McCausland studied English at Sydney University and has worked as a journalist for Vanessa McCausland studied English at The University of Sydney and has worked as a journalist nearly 20 years. Her writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, news. for nearly 20 years. Her writing has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald, com.au, Mamamia, Body+Soul, and Kidspot.com.au. She is currently a contributing editor at news.com.au, Mamamia, Body+Soul, and Kidspot.com.au. She is currently a contributing editor News Corp. Vanessa lives in Sydney with her husband and daughter. at News Corp. Vanessa lives in Sydney with her husband and daughter.

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THE DYING DIPLOMATS’ HEARTS OF GOLD CLUB: A NICK & LA JACKIE FRENCH CONTESSA MYSTERY Three women from very different backgrounds, MATTHEW BENNS bound by friendship, separated by destiny.

A brand new mystery featuring Nick and La Manuscript available October 2021 Contessa, the beloved characters from Matthew Benns’ smash hit nationwide newspaper serial. December 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460757925 Manuscript available

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‘Time for a martini, darling?’ It was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor, and wedding guests … Wise-cracking, cocktail-swilling detective duo Nick Moore and his glamorous Italian wife, La The bride had vanished. Contessa, receive a last minute invitation from the Prime Minster to a glamorous but intimate Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful. dinner party at Kirribilli House on New Year’s Eve. Some girls are born to be bad. The intriguing guestlist includes several top diplomats, a casino billionaire, a dodgy bookie, a controversial doctor, a social media influencer and, of course, Nick and La Contessa’s trusty beagle, Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is seemingly ‘sold off’ in an arranged marriage in a colony Baxter. across the world. Lady Viola Montefiore is the dark-skinned 'changeling' of a ducal family, kept hidden and then shipped away. Titania Boot is as broad as a carthorse, and as useful. But a dramatic revelation from the PM sets off more fireworks inside than outside ... and that’s before the bodies start to pile up. In the turmoil of an Australia in 1853 that reinvents itself from convict colony to a land of gold, one woman forges a business empire. One brews illegal poteen with a bushranger. And the third As suspicion falls on some of the most powerful people in the country, the race is on. Can Nick and vanishes on her wedding day, in a scandal that will mystify the world. La Contessa solve the case before anyone else joins the dying diplomats’ club? In this magnificent and broad-sweeping saga, Jackie French defies the myth of colonial women Bonus story included! Go back to where it all began with Nick and La Contessa’s first adventure in as ‘merely’ wives, servants or whores. Instead portraying them as business women, farmers, the smash hit newspaper serial We’re All In This Together. bushrangers and brewers of illegal poteen, as well as arbiters of their destiny.

PRAISE ‘Down Under’s funniest detectives shoot from the lip with a wit as dry as their martinis’ – Kathy Lette

Matthew Benns has spent his career as a journalist chasing and exposing some of the biggest Jackie French AM is an award-winning author, historian and ecologist. She was the 2014–2015 conmen and women in the world. He has worked for newspapers in Fleet Street including The Australian Children’s Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Sun, Today and Daily Mail and in Sydney for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and The Sun Member of the Order of Australia for her significant contribution to literature and youth literacy. Herald. He is also the author of a number of books including bestsellers The Men Who Killed She is regarded as one of Australia’s most popular authors with her vast body of work crossing the Qantas and Fixed, an expose of the seedy underbelly of the horse racing industry in Australia. thresholds of genre and reading age and ranging from fiction, non-fiction, picture books, ecology, His 2011 book, Dirty Money, was number one on the business books bestseller list and described fantasy and sci-fi, to her much-beloved historical fiction. by investigative journalist John Pilger as ‘a terrific book – the first of its kind in Australia’. He is jackiefrench.com currently the Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph. facebook.com/authorjackiefrench

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THE ANGEL OF LEGENDS OF THE WATERLOO LOST LILIES JACKIE FRENCH JACKIE FRENCH

A powerful novel from master storyteller The final and thrilling conclusion to the popular and Jackie French. bestselling Miss Lily series.

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The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. A mysterious telegram that says, ‘Lily needs you’ arrives just before a plane from war-ravaged England lands in one of Sophie Greenman’s paddocks. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. Sophie, Countess of Shillings, has been living a quiet life on her property in Australia, until love The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love. and loyalty draw her back to England where she once trained to become one of Miss Lily’s ‘Lovely She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon’s daughter, a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the Ladies’. Now, in 1942, Shillings Hall trains women to become espionage agents. battlefield is just a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a society that Sophie’s mission? To seek out disaffected German officers prepared to kill Hitler. allows women to practise medicine. Across Europe women like Sophie, or Parisian couturier Violette, or Hannelore, German On the other side of the world, the newly founded colony of New South Wales seems a paradise. Prinzessin and spy, must determine where their deepest loyalty lies. And as Europe slowly But Europe’s wars cast long shadows … disintegrates, Miss Lily must also decide her final fate. From bestselling author Jackie French comes the story of one woman’s journey from the hell of Based on real-life events, this is the story of the women who wielded immense, yet secret, power. Waterloo to colonial Australia, where she can forge her own dreams in a land of many nations. And in this fifth and final book in the Miss Lily series, Jackie French tells the story of the remarkable women who have been carefully left out of our war histories: those lost lilies of allied espionage.

ALSO IN PRAISE FOR JACKIE FRENCH THE SERIES: ‘a master storyteller … [she] gives women a rich, strong, and brutally honest voice’ – Better Reading ‘Heartwarming, heartbreaking and hard to put down’ – Australian Women’s Weekly on If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

Jackie French AM is an award-winning author, historian and ecologist. She was the 2014–2015 Australian Children’s Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie Jackie French AM is an award-winning author, historian and ecologist. She was the 2014–2015 became a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant contribution to literature and Australian Children’s Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia’s most popular authors with her vast body of became a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant contribution to literature and work crossing the thresholds of genre and reading age and ranging from fiction, non-fiction, youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia’s most popular authors with her vast body of picture books, ecology, fantasy and sci-fi, to her much-beloved historical fiction. work crossing the thresholds of genre and reading age and ranging from fiction, non-fiction, jackiefrench.com picture books, ecology, fantasy and sci-fi, to her much-beloved historical fiction. facebook.com/authorjackiefrench jackiefrench.com Rights Held: World English and translation facebook.com/authorjackiefrench Rights Held: World English and translation GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

BEWARE OF DOGS THIS HAS BEEN ELIZABETH FLANN ABSOLUTELY LOVELY JESSICA DETTMANN He is hunting her and there is nowhere to run. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller. Family is forever, and there’s nothing you can do about it. The charming, hilarious and all-too- Manuscript available relatable new novel from the author of How to January 2021 | 256pp | 234x153mm be Second Best. Paperback | ISBN 9781460759035 Manuscript available

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Not much daylight left now. Molly’s a millennial home organiser about to have her first baby. Obviously her mum, Annie, will So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter help with the childcare. Everyone else’s parents are doing it. on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she carefully rations But Annie’s dreams of music stardom have been on hold for thirty-five years, paused by childbirth out her meagre supplies, while desperately trying to figure out how to escape the men hunting her. then buried under her responsibilities as a mother, wage earner, wife, and only child of ailing parents. She is determined not to be a victim. Finally, she can taste freedom. What do they want with her? She knows it’s nothing good – she overheard enough on that first As Molly and her siblings gather in the close quarters of the family home over one fraught summer, night to flee. But now she’s got little food or water, no way of calling for help, and only her skills as shocking revelations come to light. Everyone is forced to confront the question of what it means to an exploration geologist and memories of Atkinson’s Guide to Bushcraft to survive. be a family. By day she is disciplined and lives by strict plans she lays down for herself, but at night she finds This Has Been Absolutely Lovelyis a story about growing up and giving in, of parents and children, of herself haunted by questions about her life that she has never wanted to face, and slowly this hope and failure, of bravery and defied expectation, and the question of whether it is ever too late to begins to unravel her. try again. With time running out, she is forced to take tremendous risks in order to stand even the slightest PRAISE FOR JESSICA DETTMANN: chance of getting away. ‘Such compelling and utterly charming story telling … A joyful, laugh-drenched, tear-soaked Winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for Fiction page-turner’ – Ben Elton ‘Dettmann nails the funny, sad and bizarre nuances of family life in this gripping novel that will PRAISE appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, Jojo Moyes and Marian Keyes.’ – Sally Hepworth ‘The suspense builds from the first page, and then comes the terror’ – Caroline Overington

Elizabeth worked for over twenty years in the publishing industry before moving into tertiary Jessica Dettmann is a Sydney-based writer and performer. Her blog, Life With Gusto, turns a sharp education to teach editing, scriptwriting and literature to postgraduate students. She is the co- but affectionate eye on modern parenthood. She has performed her work several times at Giant author of The Australian Editing Handbook, and completed a PhD in 2001 entitled Celluloid Dwarf’s Story Club, and has appeared on their podcast. Dreaming: Cultural Myths and Landscape in Australian Film 1970-1990. Now retired from After a decade working as an editor for Random House Australia and HarperCollins publishers teaching, she is able to give full rein to her true love: writing fiction. This is her first novel. she made the transition to writing after two small children rendered her housebound. She once appeared as the City of Sydney Christmas Angel and sat on top of the Town Hall in a frock that Rights Held: World English and translation reached the street.

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DRIVING STEVIE FRACASSO INSIDE MAN BARRY DIVOLA JAMES PHELPS

Two estranged brothers, one stolen car, and a road Australia’s no.1 true crime writer lets his trip from Texas to New York. What could possibly go imagination off the leash in this unputdownable wrong? For fans of Nick Hornby and David Nicholls. action thriller for all fans of Matthew Reilly, Lee Child and David Baldacci. Manuscript available Manuscript available April 2021 March 2021 | 288pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460759479 June 2021 | 336pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460758649

Jaded music journalist Rick McLennan knows his life is going south when he loses his job, his He was under no illusions about who his companions on this journey were. Shaved heads, neck tattoos, apartment and his long-term girlfriend all on the same day. But then he is thrown a lifeline – a bulging biceps, scars, noses that had been broken too many times – these were hardened men who had commission to write the story of his ex-rock-star brother, Stevie, and drive him from Austin, Texas, committed crimes serious enough to warrant a stay in Long Bay. And he was one of them. to New York to play one final gig. One small problem: the brothers haven't spoken in thirty years. He’s the only one who can stop a massacre. Rick knows it's a bad idea. But he's out of choices. So he gets behind the wheel of a beaten-up 1985 Riley Jax: convicted murderer. Once a promising engineer in the army, he lost everything in a Nissan Stanza and drives towards his destiny. He's about to find everything he didn't know he was single night when he killed a man – an act he cannot remember. missing. It's September 2001. It’s a devastating gap in an otherwise perfect memory. From award-winning journalist and author Barry Divola comes a glorious, music-infused, rollicking road-trip novel – think High Fidelity meets The Big Lebowskimeets The Darjeeling Limited. A smart, Now he’s facing a new life, one behind bars, where he has to learn a whole different set of rules and funny and wholly endearing story about how, though we may at times lose ourselves along the way, only the toughest survive. the road always leads back to family and the things that bring us joy. And as a series of deadly bombings rocks the outside world, the only man who might be able to find the truth behind the conspiracy … is on the inside. PRAISE 'Of course this road trip comes with a top-quality mix-tape – it's by Barry Divola – but it's the layers to this story, and its humour and its heart, that make this journey irresistible.' – Nick Earls 'This book is the super f***ing gnarly lead break of rock-lit novels.' – John Birmingham 'Driving Stevie Fracasso reads as great as the fifth Replacements album sounds. It's a New York– centric, music-obsessive tale of humour and poignancy, the literary equivalent of hanging with folks who think going to church is finding a record fair. A+' – Stuart Coupe

Barry Divola is a journalist, an award-winning author and broadcaster. He is one of Australia’s James Phelps is an award-winning senior reporter for Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday longest-serving and best-known music critics and feature writers. He was a senior writer for Rolling Telegraph. He began as an overnight police-rounds reporter before moving into sport, where he Stone (Australia), the long-time music critic at Who magazine, and is now a regular contributor became one of Australia’s best news-breaking rugby league journalists. James was then appointed to The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Australian Financial Review and Smith News Corp Australia’s Chief National Motorsports Writer and travelled the world chasing Journal. He is also an Australian correspondent for UK magazine Monocle. His work has appeared Formula 1 stories, as well as covering Australia’s V8 Supercar races. Following the publication of internationally in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and other magazines in the US, the his bestselling autobiography of Dick Johnson, James quickly established himself as Australia’s UK, Japan, Germany and Italy. Barry has published eight books – four non-fiction, three children’s number-one true crime writer with his bestselling prison series, including Australia’s Hardest Prison, books and one book of fiction. Australia’s Most Murderous Prison, and Australia’s Toughest Prisons. His most recent book, Australian Heist, was a dramatic retelling of the true story behind Australia’s largest gold robbery. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES SORROW AND BLISS TRENT DALTON MEG MASON

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, A dazzling, distinctive novel full of pathos, fury, wit and Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering tenderness from a boldly talented and original writer. Skies – a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Manuscript available

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Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she daughter, is looking to the skies and running for her life. Inside a duffel bag she carries a stone heart, doesn’t know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who she believes put a the thing is just to keep going. curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn’t want to have children. He said he actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. The treasure lies before them, but close behind didn’t mind either way because he has loved her since he was thirteen and making her happy is all them trails the dark. And above them, always, are the shimmering skies. that matters, although he does not seem able to do it. By the time Martha finds out what is wrong, A story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside it doesn’t really matter anymore. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. Or maybe ourselves, All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing – if you can find of bones and blue skies. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking up – a buoyant, something else to want. beautiful and magical novel, abrim with warmth, wit and wonder. The book is set in London and Oxford. It is sad and funny.

PRAISE PRAISE ‘Dalton is an author of 19th-century expansiveness, one with a sense that intelligence, talent for ‘Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed characterisation and sheer narrative brio can still be the whole cloth of the writer’s ambition … me in the way I'm always hoping to be to be engulfed by novels. While I was reading it, I was it is storytelling manna, fallen straight from the Territorian skies.’ – The Australian making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know.’ – Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House, #1 New York Times bestseller ‘A work of shimmering originality and energy, with extraordinary characters and a clever, thrilling plot … unputdownable’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘Brutal, tender, funny, this novel – a portrait of love in all of its many incarnations – came alive for me from the very first page. I saw myself here. I saw the people I love. I am changed by this book.’ Trent Dalton is a staff writer for the Weekend Australian Magazine and a former assistant editor of – Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes. The Courier Mail. He’s a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four- time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of Meg Mason began her career at the Financial Times and The Times of London. Her work has since the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. His debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. She has written published by HarperCollins in 2018, is a much-loved national bestseller and critically acclaimed, humour for The New Yorker and Sunday STYLE, monthly columns for GQ and InsideOut and is now Vogue ELLE marie claire Say winning the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams a regular contributor to , and . Her first book, a memoir of motherhood, It Again in a Nice Voice (HarperCollins) was published in 2012. Her second, a novel, You Be Mother Award for New Writing and the People’s Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary (HarperCollins) was published in August 2017. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters. Awards. In addition, at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the book won a record four ABIA Awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been Rights Held: World English and translation published across 34 English language and translation territories. Rights Licensed: North American English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish Rights Held: World English and translation (HarperCollins), UK English (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Czech (Argo), Polish (Znak), Lithuanian (Svajoniu), Estonian (Rahva Raamat), Hebrew (Tchelet Books), French (Le Cherche Midi), Danish Rights Licensed: North American English, UK English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish 12 (Politikens), Finnish (Otava), Brazilian Portuguese (Univers Dos Livros), Russian (EKSMO Publishers), (HarperCollins), Lithuanian (Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishes) Film/TV (New Regency) GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

THE TOLSTOY ESTATE MAN IN ARMOUR STEVEN CONTE SIOBHAN MCKENNA

A powerful, densely rich and deeply affecting novel How much money is enough? How powerful do you of war, love and literature, from one of Australia’s want to be? And what price will it extract from you? finest writers, Steven Conte – previously winner of An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award with his debut the world of big money and big deals, written by a novel, The Zoo Keeper’s War. leading business insider.

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In the final days of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Charles lives in the testosterone-driven, high-powered, brutal world of investment banking. It is a Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana – the former grand estate world dominated by deals, bonuses, bravado and savagery. Charles is a master of this world. Each of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile day he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out into a dog-eat-dog world to accumulate aristocratic Russian woman, Katerina Trusbetzkaya, a writer who has been left in charge of the power and make money. He’s a man who is familiar with casual brutality - his childhood saw to that. estate. But even as a tentative friendship develops between them, Bauer’s hostile and arrogant But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained commanding officer, Julius Metz, starts becoming steadily more preoccupied and unhinged as and no longer protecting him the way it once did. He finds himself empty. Always cold. No the war turns against the Germans. Over the course of six weeks, in the terrible winter of 1941, friends. A family that is falling apart. everything starts to unravel … Over the course of two days, everything in Charles’ life comes into question. His carefully From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Steven Conte The Tolstoy Estate is constructed world is starting to splinter - and he’s splintering too. ambitious, accomplished and astonishingly good: an engrossing, intense and compelling exploration of the horror and brutality of conflict, and the moral, emotional, physical and intellectual limits that Shocking and at times immensely moving, Man in Armour is a compelling story of a man at the end people reach in war time. It is also a poignant, bittersweet love story – and, most movingly, a novel of his tether, written with a sharp-eyed, incisive focus that also carries real emotional – and moral – that explores the notion that literature can still be a potent force for good in our world. resonance. Written by an ultimate business insider - a woman who knows intimately and at first hand this world of power, money and deal-making - this novel carries an undeniable authenticity and force. For readers of All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am, The Reader and The People of the Book. PRAISE PRAISE ‘The detailed setting of the finance world - the highs and lows, cutthroat practices and relentless pace ‘Grave, moving, engaging ... full of the flash and fire of dramatic incident, but also full of real feeling, -is vividly rendered ... Man in Armour is very readable’ – Bookseller+Publisher humour and poignancy, and plenty of panache … It deserves the widest possible readership.’ – The Saturday Paper ‘There’s no doubt McKenna can write a page-turner’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘Breathtaking … an intelligent. cinematic blockbuster. celebrating the power of literature to dissolve barriers and forge connections.’ – The West Australian

Steve Conte’s previous book, The Zookeeper’s War, was the 2008 winner of the Australian Prime Siobhan McKenna is chairman or director of several companies including Foxtel, Nova Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writer’s Entertainment, Woolworths and Illyria. During her career she has worked in telecommunications, Prize, Best First Book, S.E. Asia and South Pacific, and was the joint runner-up, 2007 Fellowship oil and gas, healthcare and government. She was a commissioner of the Australian Productivity of Australian Writers’ Christina Stead Award for Fiction. Commission, a chairman of NBNCo and a partner of McKinsey & Company. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and three teenage sons. Man in Armour is her first novel. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: German, Italian, Dutch (HarperCollins) Rights Held: World English and translation 14 GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

THE JACARANDA HOUSE WHITE HORSES DEBORAH CHALLINOR RACHAEL TREASURE

Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns A sweeping, powerful story of a young woman with a spellbinding novel about a woman living who has to overcome terrible loss and trauma in Sydney’s notorious King’s Cross in 1964. in her life to find the courage to live life on her terms. Manuscript available Manuscript available 464pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781775541639 464pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460757574

Polly Manaia is living in Sydney’s notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She’s Following the disappearance of her mother when she was just a young child, Drift has been raised desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her brash confidence lie dark by her father, growing up to work alongside him as an itinerant cattle drover along the beautiful secrets which threaten to drag her under. coastline of remote Western Australia. It’s a tough life, but nurtured and taught by two wise women ‒ Wilma, a gentle travelling librarian, and straight-talking Charlie, the legendary mobile Gina is excited to live with her mum again. She’s mature for an 11-year-old, but can this young saddler ‒ Drift grows up to become a confident, idealistic young woman. girl cope with Polly’s demons? But the world Drift lives in can be ugly and brutal. After a horrific sexual assault, Drift meets Rhoda and Star, transgender performers and Polly’s flatmates, bring stability to Polly’s and Gina’s a handsome young stockman, but he is not all that he seems and she is drawn into a baffling lives. Yet this unlikely little family will find themselves threatened in more ways than one. world of lies and mysteries, centring on a lushly beautiful property called The Planet, run by a The Jacaranda House is a fascinating portrayal of a shifting society and a beautiful portrait of wealthy American woman. When Drift’s father is hospitalised following a tragic accident and the motherhood and identity. young man she loves disappears, Drift has to find the courage to make her own way in the world. Drawing upon the deep well of women’s wisdom taught her by Charlie and Wilma, Drift has to PRAISE FOR DEBORAH CHALLINOR overcome heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness and pain in order to forge her path, own her truth, and ‘Australia’s answer to Philippa Gregory’ – Brisbane Times create the kind of world that she wants to live in. ‘A meticulously researched and compellingly readable story injected with heart and humour, From Drift is a heroine to cheer for, and White Horses is a novel full of authentic Australian heart and soul, the Ashes is perfect for fans of Fiona McIntosh and Kate Furnivall. A five-star read’ warmth and humour, as big and as generous as those wide-open skies in Western Australia. – Better Reading PRAISE ‘Treasure writes with true grit, wit and warmth’ – Australian Women’s Weekly ‘This isn’t classic Rachael Treasure. This is even better. Treasure has produced a polished, heart- wrenching and hopeful novel that will thrill old fans and garner many new one’ – Better Reading

Deborah Challinor has a PhD in history and is the author of 13 bestselling novels, including the Rachael Treasure lives in rural Tasmania with her two young children and an extended family of Children of War series, the Convict Girls series, the Smuggler’s Wife series and the Restless Years kelpies, chooks, horses, sheep and a time-share Jack Russell. She is passionate about encouraging series. She has also written one young adult novel and two non-fiction books. In 2018, Deborah non-readers to read, as well as inspiring both farmers to consider regenerative agricultural practices was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and historical and animal handlers to better understand their dogs and livestock. All her novels have been research. She lives in New Zealand with her husband. bestsellers.

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FLYING THE NEST OUTBACK SECRETS RACHAEL JOHNS RACHAEL JOHNS

They say a change is as good as a holiday … Bestselling author Rachael Johns returns to but what if you don’t want either? Bunyip Bay in Book 5 of this uplifting rural romance series. Manuscript available Manuscript available August 2021 448pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489276810 October 2021 | 400pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867220237

Keeping secrets comes naturally to him … but will it ruin his chance at love? Liam Castle knows the secrets of everyone in Bunyip Bay. As the owner of the pub, he’s heard Is her family’s happiness more important than her own? it all – from marriage proposals and farming disasters to family rifts and everything in between. The first time Ashling Wood realises her marriage is on the rocks is when her husband, Adrian, The locals love to confide in him, but no one knows he’s hiding a tragic past. suggests they try nest parenting. Heartbroken, Ash suddenly finds herself living a double life – one And he wants to keep it that way. week with her children, the next cohabiting with her happily single sister-in-law. Her friends think the modern custody solution is an exciting opportunity for her to spread her wings, but all Ash Agricultural pilot Henrietta Forward lives for her job, choosing work over romance. But when wants is her family back together. an incident in the air brings Henri home to Bunyip Bay earlier than planned, she finds herself questioning everything she believes about herself. An offer to renovate a seaside cottage seems like the perfect distraction for Ash while waiting for Adrian to come to his senses. She’s determined to fix her marriage as well as the cottage, but life But Henri’s secret isn’t her only problem. gets even more complicated when she meets local fisherman Dan Emerson. Her mother will stop at nothing to have her settled down back in the Bay, and while Henri had Soon, each home-stay becomes more dysfunctional, while for the other week Ash enjoys the always known domesticity wasn’t the life for her, now she wonders what her future holds. So when peaceful life of the beachside community. The more time Ash spends in Ragged Point, the more Liam – always the first to lend a hand to those in need – agrees to play along with Henri’s scheme she questions what she really wants. Is a sea-change the fresh start she needs to move on? to ward off her mother, she has mixed feelings. What happens when a pretend romance starts to feel like the real thing? When tragedy calls Ash back to the city, she’s torn between the needs of her family and her future. Can her family life fit in with a permanent move to the beach or could Ash’s new-found Will Henri’s demons and Liam’s traumatic past prove too great a barrier to love? independence attract Adrian back to the nest? ALSO IN THE SERIES: PRAISE ‘With her typical humour, empathy and wisdom, Rachael Johns has once again created characters you can’t help but fall in love with and wish the best for. Flying the Nest might just be her best novel yet!’ — Tess Woods

Rachael Johns, an English teacher by trade and a mum 24/7, is the bestselling ABIA-winning author Rachael Johns, an English teacher by trade and a mum 24/7, is the bestselling ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books including The Art of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books including The Art of Keeping Secrets, The Greatest Gift and Lost Without You. She is currently Australia’s leading writer of Keeping Secrets, The Greatest Gift and Lost Without You. She is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’. Rachael of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’. Rachael lives in the Perth hills with her hyperactive husband, three mostly gorgeous heroes-in-training and a lives in the Perth hills with her hyperactive husband, three mostly gorgeous heroes-in-training and a very badly behaved dog. She rarely sleeps and never irons. very badly behaved dog. She rarely sleeps and never irons.

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER THE FAMILY INHERITANCE TRICIA STRINGER TRICIA STRINGER

A toxic will plays havoc in the lives of three When three women are thrown together by generations of women when they discover they unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the have been living a lie. A keenly observed story of beginning. A wise, sharply delineated celebration the danger of secrets, the legacy of betrayal and the of the life-changing power of female friendships power of family for readers of Moncia McInerney for fans of Monica McInerney and Liz Byrski. and Liz Byrski. Manuscript available July 2021 Manuscript available September 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm 480pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489270870 Paperback | ISBN 9781489270825

Eve has been a partner in a Wallaby Bay fishing fleet as long as she can remember. Now they want her to sell - but what would her life be without work? She lives alone, her role on the town Sometimes an ending is really a beginning … committee has been spiked by malicious gossip and she is incapacitated after surgery. For the first Felicity Lewis’s fiftieth birthday party in her newly renovated home, loving husband and daughter time in her life she feels weak, vulnerable – old. Greta by her side, is going off with a bang when disaster strikes. Her father, Franklyn, with his When her troubled god-daughter Julia arrives at Wallaby Bay, she seems to offer Eve a reprieve usual impeccable timing, has keeled over and died. from her own concerns. But there is no such thing as plain sailing. Eve has another house guest, For some members of the family, his wife Hazel for example, Franklyn’s death is not the great loss it the abrasive Lucy, who is helping her recuperate and does not look kindly on Julia’s desire for first appears to be. But when his toxic and inexplicable will is read out, it becomes clear that long- Eve’s attention. buried secrets are about to surface, starting with the astonishing reappearance of Hazel’s long-lost sister. But Lucy, too, has demons to battle and as each woman struggles to overcome their loss of place in Indeed, Franklyn’s death sets in motion a chain of events that will cause three generations of the world, they start to realise that there may be more that holds them together, than keeps them Gifford family women to question everything they hold dear - their relationships, their loyalties, apart. even their identities. Until, that is, they choose to fight back against their dark inheritance … But will these birds of feather truly be able to reinvent what family means? Or will the secrets and A clever, sympathetic and thought-provoking look at how a legacy of lies can seep through the hurts of the past shatter their precarious hold on their new lives … and each other? generations and poison all it touches, and how the truth can set you free.

PRAISE FOR TRICIA STRINGER PRAISE FOR TRICIA STRINGER ‘A moving, feel-good, warm read about strong, loving women – the exact book we all need right ‘Warm, witty and wise.’ – The Sun Herald now.’ – Mamamia ‘An incredible book, I couldn’t stop reading it … You don’t need to be from Australia to enjoy ‘A polished family saga … all delivered with intelligence, wit and emotion in equal measures … The Family Inheritancebecause Tricia Stringer has woven a story full of surprises; it really makes Perfection!’ – Better Reading you think about all aspects of life. Five stars from me.’ – Karen Reads Books

Tricia Stringer is a bestselling and multiple award-winning author. Among others, her books Tricia Stringer is a bestselling and multiple award-winning author. Among others, her books include commercial fiction titles The Family Inheritance, Table For Eight and The Model Wife, the include commercial fiction titles The Family Inheritance, Table For Eight and The Model Wife, the rural romances Come Rain or Shine and Something in the Wine and historical sagas Dust on the rural romances Come Rain or Shine and Something in the Wine and historical sagas Dust on the Horizon and Jewel in the North. Tricia grew up on a farm in country South Australia and has spent Horizon and Jewel in the North. Tricia grew up on a farm in country South Australia and has spent most of her life in rural communities. She now lives in the beautiful Copper Coast region, often most of her life in rural communities. She now lives in the beautiful Copper Coast region, often exploring Australia’s diverse communities and landscapes, and shares this passion for the country exploring Australia’s diverse communities and landscapes, and shares this passion for the country and its people through her stories. and its people through her stories.

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THE FOSSIL HUNTER THE CARTOGRAPHER’S TEA COOPER SECRET

A fossil discovered at London’s Natural History TEA COOPER museum leads one woman back in time to A young woman’s quest to heal a family rift nineteenth century Australia and a world of entangles her in a complex historical puzzle scientific discovery and dark secrets in this when an intricately illustrated map offers a clue compelling historical mystery. to the fate of a long-lost girl. A mesmerising historical mystery for readers of Kate Morton Manuscript available August 2021 and Kate Furnivall. October 2021 | 384pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489299598 Manuscript available 384pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489299574

Wollombi, The Hunter Valley 1847 1880 The Hunter Valley:Evie Ludgrove loves to map the landscape around her home so when The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is running through the bush an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a one thousand pound reward for as a monster chases her – but no one believes her story. In a bid to curb Mellie’s overactive proof of where the great explorer Dr Ludwig Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. Anthea is an figure it out. After all, her father knew him and there are clues in his papers. But when Evie amateur palaeontologist with a dream. She is convinced she will one day find proof the great sea sets out to prove her theory she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that taints dragons - the ichthyosaur and the plesiosaur – swam in the vast inland sea that millions of years everyone’s lives for 30 years. ago covered her property at Bow Wow Gorge, and soon Mellie shares that dream for she loves 1911: When Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate she is also escaping her own problems – fossil hunting too … her brother’s sudden death, her mother’s scheming and her own dissatisfaction with the life planned 1919 out for her. So when Letitia discovers a beautifully illustrated map that might hold a clue to the fate of her missing aunt, Evie Ludgrove, her curiosity is aroused and she sets out to discover the truth When Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the battlefields of World War 1 with the of Evie’s disappearance. But all is not as it seems at Yellow Rock estate and as events unfold, Letitia intention of making her peace with her father and commemorating the death of her two younger begins to realise that solving the mystery of her family’s past could offer as much peril as redemption. brothers in the trenches, her reception is not as she had hoped. Looking for distraction, she finds a connection between a fossil at London’s Natural History museum and her brothers which leads PRAISE FOR TEA COOPER her to Bow Wow Gorge. But the gorge has a sinister reputation – 70 years ago people disappeared. ‘Boasts strong female protagonists, an infectious fascination with the past, and the narrative skill So when PJ uncovers some unexpected remains, it seems as if the past is reaching into the present to weave multiple timelines into a satisfying whole … smartly edited, cleanly written … easy to and she becomes determined to discover what really happened all that time ago … devour.’ – Sydney Morning Herald

Tea Cooper is an established Australian author of contemporary and historical fiction. In a past Tea Cooper is a bestselling international author of historical fiction. In a past life she was a life she was a teacher, a journalist and a farmer. These days she haunts museums and indulges teacher, a journalist and a farmer. These days she haunts museums and indulges her passion for her passion for storytelling. She is the bestselling author of several novels, including most storytelling. She is the bestselling author of several novels, including The Horse Thief, The Cedar recently The Naturalist's Daughter, The Woman in the Green Dress, The Girl in the Painting and Cutter, The Currency Lass, The Naturalist’s Daughter, The Woman in the Green Dressand The Girl in The Cartographer's Secret. the Painting.

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THE PRODIGAL SISTER THE LAST TRUEHART DARRY FRASER DARRY FRASER

Headstrong Prudence North faces a dangerous A woman alone and a charismatic private blackmailer who threatens her family and her detective are caught up in a dangerous quest dreams of escaping domestic drudgery. An to discover her true identity in this thrilling enthralling historical mystery from a bestselling historical adventure romance set in a 19th author. century rural town, from a bestselling author.

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1900 Melbourne, Victoria 1898, Stella Truehart is all alone in the world. Her good-for-nothing husband has died violently at Miss Prudence North is freshly returned from university in Scotland and determined to find the hands of an unknown assailant. Her mother is dead, her father deserted them before she was her place among the male-dominated world of the new forensic sciences when a high-ranking born, and now her kindly Truehart grandparents are also in their graves. policeman waylays her. He threatens to charge her father for illegal medical practices unless she helps him build a case against local landowner Jasper Darke by spying on him. Private detective Bendigo Barrett has been tasked with finding Stella. He believes his client’s intentions are good, but it is evident that someone with darker motives is also seeking her. For her With her sister’s illness worsening, if their income disappears, Prudence will have to take on own part Stella is fiercely independent, but as danger mounts she agrees to work with Bendigo and nursing and domestic duties and she’ll never have the freedom she craves. Prudence has no before long they travel together to meet his mysterious client where they discover more questions choice but to agree. than answers. Immediately taken with the handsome Mr Darke, a seemingly good and honest man, Prudence What role do a stolen precious jewel and a long-ago US Civil War ship play in Stella’s story? Will can’t see what nefarious activities she’s meant to be reporting on. She’ll have to get closer … sudden bloodshed prevent the resolution of the mystery and stand in the way of her feelings for But when a body turns up at her father’s surgery, the forensics reveal to Prudence there’s more Bendigo? It is time, at last, for the truth to be revealed … going on about all this than meets the eye. It's clear it’s up to her to uncover the truth - of this murder, of whatever’s going on at the surgery after hours and, especially, of the intriguing Jasper PRAISE FOR DARRY FRASER Darke. Her life, her family and her future rely on it … ‘A fabulous storyteller who underlies this compelling plot with strong female characters who challenge the status quo...Fast paced historical fiction, first-hand experience of the landscape, and the added bonus of a plot line that has been drawn from Darry Fraser's very own family history make this an authentic, seamless and riveting tale.’ – Better Reading 'A story of personal integrity, courage, stamina, companionship and responsibility, The Good Woman of Renmark is a powerful ode to life in former times, as our nation was beginning to take shape.’ – Mrs B's Book Reviews

Darry Fraser is the author of five bestselling historical novels that celebrate spirited heroines and Darry Fraser is the author of five bestselling historical novels that celebrate spirited heroines and adventurous journeys through breathtaking landscapes and the fascinating world of the 19th adventurous journeys through breathtaking landscapes and the fascinating world of the 19th Century. Darry currently lives, works and writes on Kangaroo Island, an awe-inspiring place off Century. Darry currently lives, works and writes on Kangaroo Island, an awe-inspiring place off the coast of South Australia. the coast of South Australia.

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SUMMER OF SERENITY SECOND CHANCE LANE NICOLA MARSH NICOLA MARSH

Opposites clash in the addictive new small-town Summerof From USA Today bestselling author Nicola romance from USA Today bestselling author Marsh comes a compelling story of love, Nicola Marsh. Serenity redemption and community.

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICOLA MARSH 'A satisfying read with plenty of drama and a big dollop of romance.' The Weekly Times on Long Way Home

A slick city boy with a mission. A free-spirited country girl with a cause. Fireworks are guaranteed … When the past crashes into the future, there’s more than hearts on the line. Upstanding principal Jay Atherton dreads the next four weeks. As punishment for crossing his Natasha Trigg leads a simple life in small-town Brockenridge. She works at the roadhouse, has good bosses, he’s been lumped with the inglorious task of assessing Acacia Haven’s tiny school with its, friends, and at the centre of her world is her daughter, Isla. She knows dumping musician Kody dare he say, ‘hippie’ curriculum. With the lowest test scores in the state, it’s no wonder shutting it Lansdowne thirteen years ago by misleading him about her pregnancy was best in the long run. She down is practically a forgone conclusion. But then he crosses paths with a spitfire who knocks him drove him away so he could achieve his dreams but has always felt guilty. When a matchmaking Isla for six – pity he’s already public enemy number one … invites a surprise new neighbour to dinner, Tash and Kody come face to face once again … Teacher Summer O’Reilly loves her small town nestled along the beautiful coast. Returning was Now a bona fide rockstar, Kody’s in hiding to sort through the mess his life has become after a the best decision she ever made. The intentional living community of Serenity is thriving, and the concert resulted in devastation. The last thing he needs is discovering he has a child. Especially as it children are its future. No way will she allow a jumped-up suit - no matter how good-looking – to means the one woman he’s never been able to forget is now permanently part of his life. Pity he’s so close the school her precious students need. furious with her … For Rayne O’Reilly, Acacia Haven has always been serene on the surface, but there’s a dark secret For Jane Jefferson, who has deliberately fooled townsfolk into believing her reputation is worse she’s kept from everyone for decades, including her daughter, Summer. But after reviving old than it is for years, a second chance is something she thought she’d never get. Reconnecting with friendships and reconnecting with the past, will she finally have the courage to tear down the walls friendships she thought lost forces her to face the question: do past mistakes define you forever? that have kept her trapped? While navigating the troubled waters of forgiveness, friendship and love, will these three PRAISE FOR NICOLA MARSH Brockenridge residents discover everyone deserves a second chance? ‘A satisfying read with plenty of drama and a big dollop of romance.’ – The Weekly Times PRAISE ‘A beautiful and touching story, underscored by emotional themes, Second Chance Lane is not to be missed’ – Mrs B's Book Reviews

USA Today bestselling and multi-award winning author Nicola Marsh writes feel-good fiction … USA Today bestselling and multi-award winning author Nicola Marsh writes feel-good fiction … with a twist. She has published seventy books and sold over eight million copies worldwide. She with a twist. She has published seventy books and sold over eight million copies worldwide. She currently writes rural romance for HarperCollins Australia’s Mira imprint, emotional domestic currently writes rural romance for HarperCollins Australia’s Mira imprint, emotional domestic suspense for Hachette UK’s Bookouture and contemporary romance for Harlequin Dare. She’s a suspense for Hachette UK’s Bookouture and contemporary romance for Harlequin Dare. She’s a Romantic Book of the Year and National Readers’ Choice Award winner. A physiotherapist for Romantic Book of the Year and National Readers’ Choice Award winner. A physiotherapist for thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two dashing young heroes, sharing fine thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two dashing young heroes, sharing food with family and friends, barracking loudly for her beloved North Melbourne Kangaroos footy fine food with family and friends, barracking loudly for her beloved North Melbourne Kangaroos team, and curling up with a good book! footy team, and curling up with a good book!

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ROAD TO ROSALEE SAVANNAH’S SECRET MANDY MAGRO MANDY MAGRO

Return to Rosalee Station with bestselling Starting over was never going to be easy, Australian author Mandy Magro’s touching story especially as he’s looking for the one thing she of the search for belonging, love and healing. can’t give … the truth.

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City girl Melody Harrison finds herself questioning everything in the wake of her mother’s Set in the heart of the Australian countryside comes a compelling romance with a touch of deathbed confession of a long-held secret – a secret that drives her far into the outback, to the suspense from bestselling author Mandy Magro. wide-open skies of Rosalee Station … Savannah Garret remains resolute in testifying as the sole eyewitness in Brisbane’s most dangerous Matt and Sarah Walsh have finally reached a time in their lives where they are at peace, but their criminal case. For safety, the police have furnished her with a new identity and instructions to keep happiness is again thrown into turmoil when Matt answers the door to a young woman with to herself. With a shiny new driver’s licence in hand and job as a barmaid lined up, this die-hard shocking news. But what is the truth? Only by offering her sanctuary at Rosalee Station will they city girl finds herself stepping off a bus and into the desolate street of the small country town she’s find space to come to grips with each other. now to call home. Long ago accepting he’s never going to fit in with his wealthy family, Zai Wellstone has finally Ash Sullivan has it all, money at his fingertips, his own property, and a successful chopper landed his dream job as head stockman at Rosalee Station. It’s here he crosses paths with the most mustering business. But when it comes to love, he’s failed miserably. Bitter experience has taught intriguing woman he’s ever met, Melody, the new camp cook. Sparks fly between them from their him that if he is ever lucky enough to meet a special woman he can fall for again, she has to be first encounter, but will the secrets she’s keeping stand in their way? upfront from the get-go, no matter what. Rosalee Station is the place where love is found and family ties mean more than anything – will These are two people, as different as chalk and cheese, who were never meant to meet until fate its magic once again show a heartbroken young woman her way forward, to the healing and intervened. Will they grow to be the person each other needs? Or will their differences drive them connection she craves? apart?

PRAISE ‘Savannah’s Secret is a story set in a small Australian country town, the local characters are likeable and extremely funny, and it has elements of romance, suspense and danger’ – Karen Reads Books

Mandy Magro lives in Cairns, Far North Queensland, with her daughter, Chloe Rose, and their Mandy Magro lives in Cairns, Far North Queensland, with her daughter, Chloe Rose, and their adorable toy poodle, Sophie. With pristine aqua-blue coastline in one direction and sweeping rural adorable toy poodle, Sophie. With pristine aqua-blue coastline in one direction and sweeping rural landscapes in the other, she describes her home as heaven on earth. A passionate woman and a landscapes in the other, she describes her home as heaven on earth. A passionate woman and a romantic at heart, Mandy loves writing about soul-deep love, the Australian rural way of life, and romantic at heart, Mandy loves writing about soul-deep love, the Australian rural way of life, and the the wonderful characters who call the country home. wonderful characters who call the country home.

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OSPREY REEF 'Timely, well paced and beautifully written.’ Starts at 60 on Whitsunday Dawn DAUGHTER OF THE ANNIE SEATON ANNIE HUNTER VALLEY SEATON PAULA J. BEAVAN Love. Greed. Revenge. And a desperate search for answers … Against the stunning backdrop of the Alone. Near destitute. But brave and Great Barrier Reef, two women in different eras determined. Can Maddy beat the odds to create discover how their hearts and fortunes are swayed a new home in the Hunter Valley? An exciting Revenge. Love. And a desperate search for by the secrets of the sea. answers at the edge of Australian historical debut, perfect for readers of the Great Barrier Reef… Darry Fraser. Manuscript available Manuscript available October 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm Osprey Paperback | ISBN 9781489277800 September 2021 | 234pp | 234x153mm Reef Paperback | ISBN 9781867221449

2019: Bethany Kristensen faces her toughest challenge to date, skippering the family charter 1831, New South Wales business. With rivals doing their utmost to undercut her prices and reputation, the Kristensens’ Reeling from her mother’s death, Madeleine Barker-Trent arrives in the newly colonised Hunter operation hangs by a thread. Winning the tender for a new scientific research program headed out River to find her father’s promises are nothing more than a halcyon dream. A day later, after a to the farthest edge of the reef is her last chance to keep the business going. But when rumour and dubious accident, she becomes the sole owner of a thousand acres of bushland, with only three vandalism turn to outright sabotage, things take a drastic turn... convicts and handsome overseer Daniel Coulter for company. 1934: Stella Booth flees a future of domestic drudgery in small-town outback Queensland, Determined to fulfil her family’s aspirations, Maddy refuses to return to England and braves heading for employment and an independent life in Mackay. But fate has other plans and an everything the beautiful but wild Australian country can throw at her – violence, danger, the accident en route sends her life spinning in a most unexpected direction... forces of nature and loneliness. But when a scandalous secret and a new arrival threaten to destroy Linked by a family mystery, decades apart, Bethany and Stella will both need to dig deeper than all she’s worked for, her future looks bleak … Can Maddy persevere or should she simply admit ever before to forge their place among the turbulent seas of the reef. defeat? A captivating historical tale of one young woman’s grit and determination to carve out her place on the PRAISE FOR ANNIE SEATON: riverbank. ‘Timely, well paced and beautifully written’ – Starts at 60 PRAISE ‘The author seamlessly weaves an intriguing and suspenseful mystery’ – Good Reads and Tea leaves ‘Richly detailed, inspiring and romantic - this engrossing story of a brave young woman overcoming insurmountable odds brings to life the early years of the Hunter Valley with clarity and authenticity.’ – Tea Cooper, author of The Cartographer’s Secret

Annie Seaton lives near the beach on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Her career and An avid reader from childhood, Paula J. Beavan grew up on a small property in the Hunter studies have spanned the education sector for most of her working life, including a Masters Degree Valley, riding horses, mustering cattle and listening to the tales of local farriers, cattlemen and in Education, and working as an academic research librarian, a high school principal and a university farmers. Her love of the land and its history together with a curiosity about the challenges faced tutor until she took early retirement and fulfilled a lifelong dream of a full-time writing career. Since by the pioneering women of the region led her to seek out stories of the area’s founding settlers. 2014 Annie has been voted Author of the Year (2014) and Best Established Author (2015 and 2017) Serendipitously she discovered a family connection to William Harpur, local landowner and one in the AusRom Today.com Reader’s Choice Awards. In 2018 Whitsunday Dawn was voted Book of the of Australia’s early surveyors. Inspired by this connection she delved deeper to discover when Year by AusRom readers, and also finalled in the ARRA Romantic Suspense book of the year awards. William Harpur lost his sight his wife Catherine managed their Hunter River property – a perfect illustration of the women she writes about. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation HARLEQUIN FICTION RE-RELEASE HARLEQUIN FICTION

ALL ABOUT ELLA THE UNUSUAL ABDUCTION MEREDITH APPLEYARD OF AVERY CONIFER ILSA EVANS At 70, and widowed, Ella is about to find out that blood is not always thicker than water. Two women abduct and hide out with their four- A wise and warm-hearted story about aging, year-old granddaughter Avery, who they suspect family and community for readers of Anita is being harmed. They both love Avery … shame Shreve and Barbara Hannay. they can’t stand each other. A wise and witty novel for readers of Beth Morrey and Jonas Jonasson.

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At 70, Ella’s world is upended, leaving her at odds with her three adult children, whose attention What would you do to protect a child? is fixed more firmly on her money than her ongoing welfare. After an argument with her son Beth’s daughter Cleo and Shirley’s son Daniel used to be married. Now Cleo is in gaol for Anthony, she flees his Adelaide home for Cutlers Bay, a seaside town on the Yorke Peninsula. There supposedly contravening a family violence order, and Daniel has full-time care of their four-year- she befriends Angie, a 40-year-old drifter, and becomes an irritant to local cop Zach. He’s keen to old daughter, Avery. shift Ella off his turf, because Anthony phones daily, demanding his mother be sent home. And When Shirley suspects that Daniel is harming Avery, she enlists Beth to abduct their own besides, Zach just doesn’t trust Angie. granddaughter, even though the two women can’t stand each other. They are joined on the run Ella warms to Cutlers Bay, and it warms to her. In a defiant act of self-determination, she buys an across country Victoria by Winnie, Shirley’s own 89-year-old tech-savvy mother, and Harthacnut, entirely unsuitable house on the outskirts of town, and Angie agrees to help make it habitable. Zach is Beth’s miniature schnauzer. drawn to the house on the clifftop, and finds himself revising his earlier opinions of Ella, and Angie. The abduction gives rise to crises both personal and social, as Shirley’s large and interfering family A keenly observed story about aging and its inherent vulnerability, about community and chosen – including her toxic son – struggle to come to terms with her actions, amid a whirl of police family, about how family stressors shape us all, about trust and loyalty, and about standing up investigation and media excitement. This heartfelt, wise, witty and wholly original novel explores for yourself. of the lengths we may go to for those we love, and the unintended damage folded into daily life.

PRAISE PRAISE ‘A poignant and beautifully written novel that reminds us of the importance of friendships ‘I loved this story of women’s lives – many different ages and kinds of women – and its deep, between women’ – Tricia Stringer, bestselling author of The Family Inheritance compassionate understanding of ordinary life forced to become extraordinary.’ – Pamela Hart, author of Digging Up Dirt ‘From the moment I met her, I was in Ella's corner. A wonderful character full of courage and love’ – Janet Gover, author of Close to Home

Meredith Appleyard lives in the Clare Valley wine-growing region of South Australia. As a registered Ilsa Evans has published 14 books across a range of genres, from light fiction and short stories nurse and midwife she practised in a wide range of country health settings, including the Royal to memoir, murder mystery and YA fantasy. Two of her books have been shortlisted for the Flying Doctor Service. She has been an agency nurse in London and a volunteer in Vietnam. When a prestigious Davitt (Sisters in Crime) Awards, while her novel about domestic violence, Broken, friend challenged Meredith to do what she’d always wanted to do – write a novel – she saved up, took was an Australian bestseller and selected as Women’s Weekly Book of the Month. time off work, sat down at the computer and wrote her first novel. Realising after the first rejection Ilsa also works as a Higher Education Coordinator at Chisholm Institute in Melbourne’s south-east, letter she needed to learn more about the craft of writing, she attended workshops, joined a writers’ teaching into several degrees including the Graduate Certificate in Family Violence. She sits on the group and successfully completed an Advanced Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing with the board of a local refuge servicing women and children escaping family violence. In her spare time, Ilsa Adelaide Centre for Arts. Meredith lives with her husband and border collie Lily, and when she’s not writes social commentary and has been published in several newspapers and online journals. In 2011, writing she’s reading! All About Ella is her sixth novel. she received the Eliminating Violence Against Women (EVA) Award for online journalism.

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THE BUCHANAN GIRLS MEET ME IN BENDIGO EMILY MADDEN EVA SCOTT

A sweeping family saga about betrayal, forgiveness Small-town Australia meets You’ve Got Mail in this and the cost of love. rural romantic comedy about online dating, second chances, and following your heart. Manuscript available July 2021 Manuscript available September 2021 | 400pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867204244 July 2021 | 384pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867230588

Sydney, 1941: Olive and Ivy may be identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. While Small-town sweetheart Annalisa Cappelli has returned to Wongilly to take over her family’s Olive is focused on marrying a man appropriate to her station, Ivy wants to do more, to be more. hardware store while she heals from a tragic loss. The business was hit hard by the pandemic, Joining the Australian Women’s Service Army is the perfect chance for her to escape her family and now a Carpenter’s Warehouse hardware superstore is opening in the district. There’s no way obligations and make a real difference in the world. She doesn’t expect serving her country to lead Annalisa is going to let two hundred years of history go down the drain, but she’s going to need to to romance … or devastating betrayal and unthinkable grief. fight to keep her family’s legacy alive. As the war progresses, both Olive and Ivy find themselves wanting the same thing: for their loves to The one simple thing in her life is her no names, no complications, easy-breezy online relationship return safely. But neither of the Buchanan girls is ready for what the future has in store for them. with GardenerGuy94. For now, their online flirtation is the only kind of romance Annalisa needs. Sydney, 2008: Escaping her husband’s betrayal and an impossible personal loss, Madeline returns Until she meets Ed Carpenter. Sexy as hell, he’d be the perfect man … if he wasn’t trying to home to Sydney to nurse her broken heart. As she settles into her new routine, it’s too easy to destroy her business. consider never returning to New York and her old life. But her husband won’t give up on what Ed Carpenter is in Wongilly to offer the owner of a small hardware store a payout to pave the way they have so easily, and Madeline can’t ignore his messages reminding her of why they fell in love for his family’s next superstore. What he doesn’t expect is for the owner to be the woman he’s been in the first place. With her grandmother’s support, Madeline has to decide if forgiveness means talking to online. Annalisa is beautiful and passionate, and he’s sure she’s the one for him. But how reconciliation. But is the biggest betrayal yet to come? can he reveal the truth without losing her?

Emily Madden covets books like some women covet shoes and handbags (although she has a Eva comes from a family of storytellers and has been writing her own stories since she could decent collection of each of those too!). While she reads anything and everything, stories that hold a pencil. Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in Melbourne, Eva developed her touch the heart and uplift the soul are what she loves the most. Emily lives in Sydney with her two wanderlust and a passion for culture and language. Eva’s passion for the Australian country is born girls and husband. She’s a coffee lover and can often be found writing at her local haunts. of her large extended family, which is spread out across the land. Eva’s books explore relationships, culture, our roles in changing society, love and loss. Rights Held: World (excl. Germany) English language Rights Held: World English and translation HARLEQUIN FICTION HARLEQUIN FICTION

THE LAST OF THE THE VET FROM APPLE BLOSSOM SNOWY RIVER MARY-LOU STEPHENS STELLA QUINN

The fire took everything – except two women’s A hot vet. A rebellious teenager. And meddling fighting spirits. A sweeping, big-hearted but well-meaning townsfolk. Vera gets more Australian family saga for readers of Judy Nunn than she bargains for when she runs off to a and Colleen McCulloch. new life in the country … A fresh and funny contemporary romance. Manuscript available Manuscript available July 2021 | 400pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867226437 June 2021 | 416pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867225591

7 February, 1967. Walls of flame reduce much of Tasmania to ash. Vera De Rossi no longer believes in love … Young schoolteacher Catherine Turner rushes to the Huon Valley to find her family’s apple orchard And thanks to her ex-boyfriend she’s also broke, jobless, and staring down the barrel of a court case destroyed, her childhood home in ruins and her brother dead. Despite her father’s declaration that that could land her in prison. Turning to her talent for baking, Vera opens a cafe in Hanrahan, a a woman will never run the orchard, Catherine resolves to rebuild the family business. cosy tourist town in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains. After five sons, Catherine’s friend and neighbour, Annie Pearson, is overjoyed by the birth of a Josh Cody, once Hanrahan’s golden boy, escaped sixteen years ago with gossip hard on his heels much longed for daughter. As Annie and her husband Dave work to repair the damage to their and a pregnant girlfriend in tow. Now he’s back: a qualified veterinarian – and a single dad with a orchard, Dave’s friend Mark pitches in, despite the fact that Annie wants him gone. Mark has lot to prove. A new start and a grumpy teenage daughter … it’s a lot to juggle, and there’s no room moved his family to the valley to escape his life in Melbourne, but his wife has disappeared leaving in his life for further complications. But that’s before he walks into The Billy Button Cafe and chaos in her wake and their young son Charlie in Mark’s care. meets its prickly owner … Catherine becomes fond of Charlie, whose strange upbringing has left him shy and withdrawn. Reeling from the past, Vera has no intention of being sidetracked by the hot vet with a killer smile. However, the growing friendship between Mark and Catherine not only scandalises the small But fate has a way of tripping up our best intentions and between a stray cat and a busybody with community but threatens a secret Annie is desperate to keep hidden. a heart of gold, this is a town – a family – unlike any other. And, whether Vera wants it or not, is Through natural disasters, personal calamities and the devastating collapse of the apple industry, there anything a family won’t do to help one of its own? Catherine, Annie and those they love battle to save their livelihoods, their families and their secrets. PRAISE PRAISE ‘The perfect feel-good blend of warmth, wit and small town charm. This debut will leave you ‘Mary-Lou Stephens has crafted a taut family drama set against a backdrop of environmental and smiling.’ – Alissa Callen bestselling author of Snowy Mountains Daughter political upheaval. The crisp prose sparkles and the characters stay with you long after the story ends’ – Lauren Chater, author of Gulliver’s Wife

Mary-Lou Stephens was born in Tasmania, studied acting at The Victorian College of the Arts and Stella Quinn believes romance, adventure and escape are the reasons we love to read. They’re also the played in bands in Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney. Eventually she got a proper job – in radio, where reasons she loves to write. Stella was born in England and has lived in Asia, Australia and the South she was a presenter and music director, first with commercial radio and then with the ABC. Pacific. When she’s not sitting in the sun scribbling (the old-fashioned way) in a notebook, she can be found walking her dog, roaming her neighbourhood in search of the perfect latte, or thrashing her She received rave reviews for her memoir Sex, Drugs and Meditation (2013), the true story of how children at scrabble. Stella lives in Queensland, has four children, a funky day job as a tax accountant, meditation changed her life, saved her job and helped her find a husband. and you can find her via her website, www.stellaquinnauthor.com Mary-Lou has worked and played all over Australia and now lives on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and a hive of killer native bees. Rights Held: World English and translation

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HEIRESS ON FIRE SARGASSO KELLIE MCCOURT KATHY GEORGE

After accidentally blowing up her husband, can A mesmerising Australian novel that echoes the Indigo get back on her four-inch heels? In this great gothic stories of love and hate: Wuthering madcap debut, One for the Money meets Crazy Heights, Jane Eyre, and especially Daphne du Rich Asians with a little Miss Fisher’s Murder Maurier’s Rebecca. For readers of Kate Morton Mysteries thrown in. and Hannah Richell.

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The marriage of Aussie billion-heiress Indigo-Daisy-Violet-Amber Hasluck-Royce-Jones-Bombberg Last night I dreamt I went to Sargasso again … to conscientious reconstructive surgeon Dr Richard Bombberg has come to a spectacular end. In As a child, Hannah lived at Sargasso, the isolated beachside home designed by her father, a the middle of a cocktail party, Indigo set him and a mysterious redhead on fire. And then blew brilliant architect. A lonely, introverted child, she wanted no company but that of Flint, the them and her penthouse up. All terrible accidents. enigmatic boy who no one else ever saw … and who promised he would always look after her. When detectives discover explosive device remains in the charred penthouse, they’re gunning for Hannah’s idyllic childhood at Sargasso ended in tragedy, but now as an adult she is back to Indigo. Unless she can remain upright, stuff her dignity into her Chanel clutch and uncover the renovate the house, which she has inherited from her grandmother. Her boyfriend Tristan visits mystery redhead’s identity, she’s going to jail. regularly but then, amid a series of uncanny incidents, Flint reappears … and as his possessiveness To help Indigo, her semi-retired, semi-Buddhist, supermodel mother hires Esmerelda, a recent grows, Hannah’s hold on the world begins to lapse. What is real and what is imaginary, or from graduate of the model mentor prison program, as Indigo’s personal assistant. Indigo and Esmerelda beyond the grave? traverse Sydney’s upper-class underbelly picking locks, outsmarting bankers and leprechauns, beating up feared gangsters, breaking into hospitals, setting a cathedral on fire (another terrible PRAISE accident), bribing a giant fireman and some other stuff. ‘Shades of du Maurier’s classic Rebecca in this riveting, atmospheric mystery. Captivating’ How hard can all this be for an heiress and a felon? – Téa Cooper, bestselling Australian author ‘Atmospheric, moody and deeply sensual, Sargasso is the perfect combination of contemporary love PRAISE story and gothic intrigue. Evoking the ethereal, dream-like quality of summers gone by, it shifts ‘A wild and rollicking ride through Sydney's celebrity culture, accessorised with a marvellous between the past and the present, teasing and tormenting until its final, stunning conclusion’ murder mystery’ – Tracey Spicer – Jane Cockram, author of House of Brides ‘Hilarious, witty and completely binge-worthy. Heiress on Fire is a fabulous murder mystery novel and the perfect summer read’ – Better Reading

Kellie McCourt has worked as a national and international television anchor, producer and reporter. Kathy George was born in South Africa, and has since lived in Namibia, New Zealand, and She’s also a seasoned print journalist, magazine editor and television scriptwriter. Australia. A hopeless romantic, she fell in love with Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier as a teenager, Kellie has a double BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Curtin University. She’s studied and includes Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations among her favourite books. She has worked journalism and business in Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam and the Philippines, and has as a legal assistant, but her true enthusiasm has always been for writing, and she holds an Masters completed a postgrad scholarship program at UNSW. of Fine Arts in Australian Gothic literature from Queensland University of Technology. Kathy lives in Brisbane and Sargasso is her first novel. Kellie passionately advocates and creates, entertaining, gender empowering stories. She lives in Sydney with her two daughters and her two adopted toy poodles. Rights Held: World English and translation

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TRICK OF THE LIGHT DIGGING UP DIRT FIONA MCCALLUM PAMELA HART

The old saying goes: A problem shared is a problem Renovations are hell. And that’s before you halved. But what if your problem is secret? For find the body beneath the floorboards. An readers of Jodi Picoult and Amanda Prowse. intriguing mystery from a stylish new voice in crime fiction, for readers of Alexander McCall Manuscript available Smith, MC Beaton and Robert Thorogood.

Erica, newly widowed, is devastated to discover her venture capitalist husband left their finances in When your builder finds bones under the floor of your heritage home, what do you do? For TV ruins. Determined to save her home while protecting her teenage daughters, she vows to get back researcher Poppy McGowan, the first step is to find out if the bones are human (which means on her feet without letting them, or anyone else, know the truth. calling in the cops and delaying her renovations) or animal (which doesn’t). When her girls head off on a long-planned overseas adventure, Erica focuses on her much-loved Unfortunately, ‘help’ comes in the form of Dr Julieanne Weaver, archaeologist, political hopeful, job behind a make-up counter to keep her emotionally and financially afloat – although she is and Poppy’s old enemy. She declares the bones evidence of a rare breed of fat-tailed sheep, and troubled by a peculiar encounter at work. slaps a heritage order on the site. The resultant archaeological dig introduces Poppy to Tol Lang, the best-looking archaeologist she’s ever met - and also Julieanne’s boyfriend. Then she loses her job, the darkness beckons and Erica’s life spirals downwards, further disturbed by strange occurrences in her house. Missing objects. Stopped clocks. Noises in the night. Should When Julieanne is found murdered in Poppy’s house, both she and the increasingly attractive Tol she doubt her very sanity? Can she swallow her pride and make herself reach out to her friends in are considered suspects – and so Poppy uses her media contacts and news savvy to investigate other time? Does she have a choice? suspects. Did Julieanne have enemies in the right-wing Australian Family party, for which she was seeking preselection, or in the affiliated Radiant Joy Church? Or at the Museum of New South A moving story of loss, finding strength and changing tack from Australia’s master storyteller. Wales, among her rivals and ex-boyfriends? And who was her secret lover? PRAISE FOR FIONA MCCALLUM Can Poppy save herself, and Tol … and finally get her house back? ‘A master storyteller’ – Good Reading PRAISE ‘McCallum has a keen eye for fine detail and writes about raw emotion better than any other ‘Fast, fun and ferocious in turns’ – Candice Fox, bestselling Australian crime writer contemporary writer I know’ – War Cry Magazine ‘Digging Up Dirt is a clever, blackly funny murder mystery of our times’ – Petronella McGovern, author of Six Minutes

Fiona McCallum was raised on a farm near Cleve on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula and remained Pamela Hart is an award-winning author for adults and children. She has a Doctorate of Creative in the area until her mid-twenties, during which time she married and separated. She then moved to Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. Under the name Pamela Freeman she wrote the Melbourne and on to Sydney a few years later. Fiona currently resides in suburban Adelaide. historical novel The Black Dress, which won the NSW Premier’s History Prize for 2006. Pamela Fiona writes heart-warming stories that draw on her rich and contrasting life experiences, love of is also well known for her fantasy novels for adults, published by Orbit worldwide, the Castings animals and fascination with human nature. Her first novel, Paycheque, was published in 2011 Trilogy, and her Aurealis Award-winning novel Ember and Ash. More recently she has been writing and became a bestseller. In the ten years since, Fiona has written another eleven bestselling novels: historical romance novels as Pamela Hart, including The War Bride, which was shortlisted for Nowhere Else, Wattle Creek, Saving Grace, Time Will Tell, Meant To Be, Leap of Faith, Standing Romantic Book of the Year Australia (the Ruby) and Romantic Book of the Year UK (the Rona) Strong, Finding Hannah, Making Peace, A Life of Her Own and The Long Road Home. A Trick of the in 2017. Pamela lives in Sydney with her husband and their son, and teaches at the Australian Light is Fiona’s thirteenth novel. Writers’ Centre, where she is Director of Creative Writing.

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THE OTHER SIDE CLOSE TO HOME OF BEAUTIFUL JANET GOVER KIM LOCK A delightful small town story of community and Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning family with shades of The Dressmaker. break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best Manuscript available efforts. February 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489294302 Manuscript available

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Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond Two households, both alike in dignity … the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn’t been outside that house for two years now. Aunt Alice Dwyer loves her small Australian town. She's rarely left its comforting embrace. She Flung out into the world she’s been studiously ignoring, Mercy goes to the only place she can. knows everyone in it; in fact, she's related to most of them. All she wants is to keep her family Her not-quite-ex-husband Eugene’s house. But it turns out she can’t stay there, either. safe and the town running exactly the way it always has. Her way. But when an exotic French artist comes to town, her hold begins to weaken … And so begins Mercy’s unwilling journey. After the chance purchase of a cult classic campervan (read tiny, old and smelly), with the company of her sausage dog, Wasabi, and a mysterious box of Lucienne Chevalier, once the toast of Europe, has come to Nyringa after a tragic loss to hang up cremated remains, Mercy heads north from Adelaide to Darwin. her sequins and create a place for her circus family to rest between tours. With her is Simon, her grandson, recovering from an injury so damaging he can no longer perform. Lucienne fears he'll On the road, through badly timed breakdowns, gregarious troupes of grey nomads, and run-ins never embrace a new future. That is, until she notices the chemistry between him and the new with a rogue adversary, Mercy’s carefully constructed walls start crumbling. But what was Mercy schoolteacher … All they need is a push. hiding from in her house? And why is Eugene desperate to have her back in the city? They say you can’t run forever … Both grande dames think they know what's best, but with equal amounts of stubbornness on Exquisite, tender and wry, this is a break-out novel about facing anxiety and embracing life from both sides, peace looks unlikely. Then a relationship between Alice's rebellious great-niece and an extraordinary new talent. a teenage acrobat sets the two communities on a collision course. But when the bakery starts making patisseries over lamingtons, the battle lines are truly drawn … PRAISE A story of community and family. Of the love that brings them together … and the fears that ‘Unforgettable, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud funny' – Sophie Green, bestselling author of would tear them apart. Perfect for readers who love Robyn Carr. The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle PRAISE FOR JANET GOVER ‘Kim Lock mixes the transformative journey of Alice Hart with the quirkiness of Eleanor Oliphant ‘A stirring family drama, The Lawson Sisters is an exceptional read from cover to cover.’ in this story about embracing life’ – Tricia Stringer, bestselling author of The Family Inheritance – Mrs B's Book Reviews ‘The Other Side of Beautiful captures with moving honesty and a burbling sense of gathering hope what it’s like to reach the very end of yourself and find that maybe there’s more of that story to be told’ – NetGalley

Kim Lock is an internationally published author of four novels. Her writing has also appeared in Kill Janet Gover is the author of 13 published books, mostly set in rural Australia after growing up in Your Darlings, The Guardian, Daily Life and The Sydney Morning Herald online, among others. She the Outback. Her stories focus on family and community relationships and strong women taking lives in regional South Australia with her family. control over their lives. She has won or been shortlisted for awards in the Australia, the UK and the US, and speaks at writing events and mentors new writers. Married to an Englishman, Janet Rights Held: World English and translation divides her time between West London and Australia.

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SNOWY MOUNTAINS ALL WE HAVE IS NOW DAUGHTER KANEANA MAY

ALISSA CALLEN For fans of Colleen Oakley and JoJo Moyes, this Welcome to Bundilla. A new close-knit timely and moving novel explores how unexpected community where romance can blossom. grief can change and damage our belief in the A compelling story of homecoming and family world – but also how coming out the other side secrets from USA Today bestselling author draws what is important around us. Alissa Callen. Manuscript available

The road home isn't for the faint-hearted… Healing others is their calling, but what happens if they can't fix themselves? Peony flower farmer Clancy Parker was born and bred in the Australian high country. Small-town Health and wellbeing brought Olive, Elsie and Bree together. After five years, their bustling Bundilla is the only place she will ever truly belong, even if staying means remaining alone. The man wellness centre is demanding expansion. A beautiful federation house nestled among the she'd loved is long gone and single men are as rare as a summer snowfall. picturesque backdrop of their small town is the perfect place to grow their business. But they As soon as he could, street artist Heath MacBride escaped his complicated family and traded don't count on their personal lives getting in the way. mountain peaks for city concrete. Now a commission to paint a mural on Bundilla's water tower Practical and pragmatic, Olive keeps her past hidden from her friends. But when an old high brings him home. It doesn't matter how long he's been away, the animosity of his cattleman father school flame shows up, the secrets she's worked so hard to bury threaten to tear her carefully hasn't waned. As soon as the water tower is painted, he will be gone. constructed world apart. But between steadfast Clancy, who'd once been his muse, a free-spirited kelpie who becomes his Bree is the fun-loving one, although family tensions lurk behind her free-spirited facade. The shadow and a corrosive family secret, his best laid plans disintegrate. When life again backs him into reappearance of her troubled sister Winnie brings Bree's priorities into sharp focus. Will she a corner, will he have no choice but to leave or will he and Clancy have the second chance they'd have to shelve her own happiness to save her sister? each thought would forever remain out of reach? Kind and maternal to all those around her, Elsie's role as the practice's counsellor comes naturally. But when tragedy strikes, her world tumbles down like a house of cards. PRAISE FOR ALISSA CALLEN With everything they've built in disarray, their friendship is on the line … ‘A moving story with a touching romance weaving its way around and through the many issues facing a rural community.’ – The Burgeoning Bookshelf A richly nuanced and empathetic examination of life, loss and courage from a talented newcomer. ‘A must-read for fans of the genre, exploring tragedy and perseverance’ – Better Reading PRAISE FOR KANEANA MAY ‘An author to watch … polished writing and zippy dialogue. A highly entertaining read.’ – Better Reading

Alissa Callen is a country girl happiest living far from the city fringe. She draws inspiration from Kaneana May studied television production at university, graduating with first-class honours the countryside around her and from the resilience of local bush communities. Once a teacher in screenwriting. She went on to work in television, including roles as a script assistant on All and a counsellor, she remains interested in the life journeys that people take. Alissa lives with her Saints, a storyliner on Headland and a scriptwriter on Home and Away. Since becoming a mother, family on a small slice of rural Australia in Dubbo NSW. Kaneana has turned her attention to fiction writing. Kaneana loves to read—mostly YA, romance and women's fiction—and also loves watching TV and films. Writing, boot camp, coffee, chocolate and champagne are just some of her favourite things. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation HARLEQUIN FICTION HARLEQUIN FICTION

THE WOMEN’S PAGES THE DAUGHTER OF VICTORIA PURMAN VICTORY LIGHTS

From the bestselling author of The Land Girls KERRI TURNER comes an evocative novel redolent of past times that speaks to the true history and real experiences Inspired by the early burlesque/vaudeville shows, of women as the Second World War ends. For this compelling dual-timeline novel breathes new readers of Kate Furnivall and Pam Jenoff. life into exploring the aftermath of WWII for young women. Manuscript available Manuscript available 416pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489273987 352pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781489256720

Sydney 1945 The war is over, the fight begins. ‘PART CABARET, PART BURLESQUE, AND LIKE NOTHING YOU’VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. GENTLEMEN, AND LADIES IF YOU’VE DARED TO COME, WELCOME TO …’ The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent There was a pause, and Evelyn sensed those around her leaning forward in anticipation. Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women’s pages of her ‘THE VICTORY!’ newspaper – the only job available to her – where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. 1945: After the thrill and danger of volunteering in an all-female searchlight regiment protecting Londoners from German bombers overhead, Evelyn Bell is secretly dismayed to be sent back As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly her rigid domestic life when the war is over. But then she comes across a secret night-time show, finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of- hidden from the law on a boat in the middle of the Thames. Entranced by the risque and lively war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked performance, she grabs the opportunity to join the misfit crew and escape her dreary future. women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. At first the Victory travels from port to port to raucous applause, but as the shows get bigger and bigger, so too does the risks the performers are driven to take, as well as the growing emotional Meanwhile Tilly’s waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope complications among the crew. Until one desperate night … with the stranger her own husband has become since liberated from Changi, a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending 1963: Lucy, an unloved and unwanted little girl, is rescued by a mysterious stranger who says crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning … he knows her mother. On the Isle of Wight, Lucy is welcomed into an eclectic family of ex- performers. She is showered with kindness and love, but gradually it becomes clear that there are PRAISE secrets they refuse to share. Who is Evelyn Bell?

‘A richly crafted novel that graphically depicts life during those harrowing years. A touching tale PRAISE and an enthralling read.’ – Reader's Digest ‘With beautifully plotted storylines and engaging characters resulting in a spectacular novel. ‘A powerful and moving book.’ – Canberra Weekly The Daughter of Victory Lights took my breath away.’ – Better Reading

Victoria Purman is an award-nominated bestselling author. The Last of the Bonegilla Girls was Kerri Turner is a writer and a dance teacher, and has an Associate Degree in Dance and a Diploma published May 2018, and her most recent book The Land Girls was published May 2019. She is of Publishing. Some of the highlights from Kerri’s dancing include being cast in a solo role by the a regular guest and convenor at writers’ festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter. Victoria has filmmaker and choreographer Rosetta Cook and learning pas de deux with the former Artistic been nominated for a number of readers’ choice awards and was a judge in the fiction category for Director of the Queensland Ballet, Harold Collins. the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation HARLEQUIN FICTION HARLEQUIN FICTION

THE UNWORTHY DUKE LORD SOMERTON’S HEIR CHARLOTTE ANNE ALISON STUART

First love left them desolate … can a new love Witty, passionate and fast-paced, this sparkling heal their wounds? A tale of second chance love debut Regency romance is a must-read for any fan in aristocratic Regency England, for lovers of all of Georgette Heyer, Julia Quinn and all things things Bridgerton. Bridgerton. Manuscript available July 2021 Manuscript available July 2021 September 2021 | 532pp | 234x153mm September 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781867234715 Paperback | ISBN 9781867234722

She’s running from her past; he’s hiding from his. Sebastian Alder’s sudden elevation from penniless army captain to Viscount Somerton is the stuff of fairy tales, but the cold reality of an inherited estate in wretched condition leaves him little Miss Ellen Burney doesn’t have a penny to her name. Determined to escape scandal, she flees time for fantasy, and the memory of his wife’s brutal death haunts his every moment. When he to London and becomes Miss Smith: spinster and lady’s companion. London offers security in learns of the mysterious circumstances of his cousin’s demise, he must also look for a potential anonymity. So long as Ellen can rein in her overactive imagination and become the perfect picture murderer … surely not Isabel, his cousin’s ladylike widow? of propriety. Isabel, Lady Somerton, is desperate to bury the memory of her unhappy marriage by founding Calum Callaghan spent ten years in the Royal Navy fighting Napoleon and has the scars to prove the charity school she has always dreamed of. Her hopes are shattered from beyond the grave it. Now he’s a duke, but all of London thinks he murdered his brother. Heartbroken and battle when she is left not only penniless but once more bound to the whims of a Somerton … although weary, he’s locked himself away for four long years, a prisoner in his own townhouse. perhaps the new Lord Somerton is a man she can trust … or even care for? That is, until Cal’s grandmother comes to stay with him for the London Season, her new lady’s Suspicion could tear them apart … honesty and courage may pull them together. companion in tow. A lady’s companion with a passion for life and love that can hardly be contained by even the most spinsterish of lace caps. She’s fooling nobody, especially not this grumpy duke. PRAISE PRAISE ‘In the wake of Waterloo, a richly detailed historical romance with plenty of danger, deception and derring-do’ – Anne Gracie, international award-winning author ‘Secrets and scars that run deep … a delightful Regency twist on Beauty and the Beast!’ – Alison Stuart, author of The Postmistress ‘Lord Somerton’s Heir is a heartfelt historical romance, which combines heartbreak and mystery, with friendship and just enough seduction’ – Love Reading Romance ‘Charming characters, witty banter, a delightful romp from a sparkling new voice in historical romance.’ – Allison Butler, author of the Borderland Brides series ‘A sweet love story, Lord Somerton’s Heir by Alison Stuart takes its cues from Cinderella with a fairytale geared towards the hero's perspective’ – Romantic Historical Reviews

With a degree in archaeology, Charlotte Anne now pens steamy historical romances. She’s been Australian author Alison Stuart began her writing journey halfway up a tree in the school writing for as long as she can remember, and in her spare time she’s climbed to Mt Everest Base playground with a notebook and a dream. Her father’s passion for history and her husband’s love Camp and has earned her black belt in taekwondo. She’s even a pretty good shot with a bow. of adventure and the Australian bush led to a desire to tell stories of Australia’s past.

Rights Held: World English and translation She has travelled extensively and lived in Africa and Singapore. Before turning to writing full time, she enjoyed a long and varied career as a lawyer, both in private practice and in a range of different organisations, including the military and the emergency services.

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MUSTER DOGS THE FERALS THAT ATICIA GREY ATE AUSTRALIA GUY HULL Red dirt, kelpies and a woman breaking tradition Manuscript available August 2021 Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia’s feral nightmare November 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733341588 Manuscript available July 2021 | 384pp | 210x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733341762

A farmer’s best friend and arguably one of the most reliable workers to have by your side is a good Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a dog. In the often remote and rugged rangeland country of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign where properties can cover vast tracks of land, teams of working dogs have taken a back seat to animals that now dominate the country’s ecosystem. They are the enemy within. mechanical mustering, as aircraft, buggies and motorbikes become more prevalent. On one family Since that time, around 10 per cent of Australia’s endemic terrestrial mammalian species have station, working dogs are making a comeback. become extinct. Today Australia is dealing with the damage caused by all hard-hoofed animals, Aticia Grey – Teesh as she is known to friends and family – picked up her first team of kelpies domestic and feral. in 2013 and has never looked back. Stepping into a world she hadn’t previously known existed, Yet the bigger feral story is the ravages of acclimatisation, as new settlers tried to make the Teesh found herself on a rollercoaster ride of laughter, love, revelations and heartbreak, with her colonies more like their homeland and released the rabbit, the fox, the hare, feral cats, common charismatic Pilbara Working Dogs. During the recent drought, the economic and animal-welfare mynas, starlings, sparrows, redfin perch, and the many other invasive species that have brought benefits of handling cattle with skilled herding dogs became even clearer. Teesh’s working dogs natural Australia to its knees. will continue to play a crucial role on the family property as they move away from old traditions towards a more regenerative future. In this book, Guy Hull details the history and toll of the numerous foreign animal species that have contributed to the decimation of Australian species, their assault on land and agriculture, In 2020 Teesh got the chance to showcase the potential of working dogs more widely. Joining and the modern strategies that are – hopefully – reclaiming the country for our native fauna and the ABC TV series Muster Dogs, Teesh and four other farming families took on the challenge all its inhabitants. of training new kelpie pups and testing their worth on the properties they run. Through this experience they have shown the bonds that are formed between human and dog; and vividly demonstrated the economic, environmental and emotional impact of the renaissance of muster dogs in herding and farming in rural Australia.

Aticia Grey grew up from the age of five on the family’s cattle station in the far south-west Pilbara, and Guy Hull is the author of the bestselling The Dogs that Made Australia. He is a qualified and after attending boarding school for the required years, returned home to work on the land alongside experienced dog behaviourist and trainer, possessed of an encyclopaedic knowledge of dog breeds, her parents and brother. Twenty-seven years later, she is still there with her partner, Adam, and mother, crossbreeds and types. He also has a passion for Australia’s natural, human and canine history, and Susan, managing the property with a tireless team of kelpies, and practising her rain dance. Whenever our relationship with the dogs, livestock and other introduced animals that have influenced the she gets a chance outside station work, she is taking photos of her dogs, organising new homes evolution of modern Australia. nationally and internationally for her pups, reading anything fiction she can get her hands on and cooking up something unhealthy in the kitchen. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation GENERAL NON-FICTION GENERAL NON-FICTION

GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIG DOG, SMALL DOG VOLUNTEER FIRIES SELINA MCINTYRE STORIES MAKE YOUR DOG HAPPIER BY BEING BILL MARSH UNDERSTOOD

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The devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires threw the importance of our volunteer firefighters Learning how to communicate with your dog will lead you and your canine companion to a lifetime of into sharp relief. But these brave men and women don’t just step up to save lives and properties in fires; happiness. they are also there to help in road accidents, plane crashes, natural disasters like cyclones and floods – Dog behaviour expert Selina McIntyre uses a natural and direct method, helping humans understand how and, yes, even rescuing cats that have got themselves into strife. dogs deal with things like fear, change and anxiety. Big Dog Small Dog is packed with practical advice and In this collection of first-hand stories, ranging from the 1880s to 2020, our courageous and selfless natural ways to understand your dog’s world: what they really want from their daily walk, what they think volunteer firies take us right up to the frontlines and reveal the stark realities of the dangers they face to about children, and the truth about dog parks … keep the community safe. Owning a dog is a huge responsibility and the more we prepare for such a major life decision, the more This book serves as a tribute to the thousands of volunteer firies across Australia who roll up their sleeves we empower ourselves. With the right signals, you’ll soon be able to understand and speak your dog’s and put their lives on the line to assist their fellow man. language, helping you cement the foundations of a lasting and positive relationship.

Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh is an award-winning writer/performer of stories, songs and plays. Based in Selina McIntyre runs a dog behavioural consultancy called Dogs Best Friend, in Waikato, New Adelaide, he is best known for his successful Great Australian series of books published with ABC Zealand. Her study of animal behaviour began as a teenager, working with lion cubs at a wildlife Books: More Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories (2007), Great Australian Railway Stories (2005), Great park. She has a Bachelor of Applied Animal Technology, and strives to bring long-term happiness Australian Droving Stories (2003), Great Australian Shearing Stories (2001), and Great Australian Flying to every dog she encounters. She lives with her family, her two border terriers, Trev and Lily, and a Doctor Stories (1999). mostly tolerant black and white moggy, Isobelle.

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JULIA MORRIS MAKES A RICHER YOU IT EASY MARY HOLM JULIA MORRIS Bestselling author and New Zealand’s most Hilariously half-baked life advice from yet trusted financial expert on how to make your another deluded celebrity, money work in the real world

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Welcome to Julia Morris’s immaculately conceived EASY system: a crackpot satire on celebrity Getting richer doesn’t just mean accumulating more money. It’s about building your knowledge self-help culture. Julia will help you figure out the stuff you don’t need to do, cut down on the of the different ways money works, so you can navigate around whatever comes your way: family crapola you’ve decided you don’t want to do, make the stuff you absolutely have to do a breeze - complications, following your dreams, relationship issues, house price fluctuations, being braver and ensure you enjoy the whole lot. Brace yourself for a deluge of slacker life hacks, nice-but-not- in retirement, helping your children - young and older, getting the best mortgage for you, saving very-bright advice and life-changing inspiration on: too little - or too much! • Making It All About You Sometimes the best path to a richer you is to learn from the mistakes and triumphs of others. This • Getting Shallow book features 184 of those situations, to help make your financial journey smoother and all the more rewarding. • The Importance of Always Proving Your Point • The Joy of Ex-cuses PRAISE • Achieving Blind Self-confidence ‘If you read one book to help yourself financially this year, make it this one.’ – Jane Wrightson, • How to (Not) Get Shit Done Commission for Financial Capability • Judging Others • The Power of Negative Thinking • The Zero Habits of Highly Ineffective People • How to Say Yes, Then Cancel • Complaining and Comsplaining Disclaimer: if you think this book is going to be like other celebrity self-help books, think again

Julia Morris is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated performers. Julia has seamlessly Mary Holm (ONZM for services to financial literary education) is the author of six books, two moved between the stage and the screen for over 34 years. Julia first appeared on Aussie TV at of them number one New Zealand bestsellers. She is also an award-winning columnist and a 17, singing on the talent show New Faces. By the mid-nineties Julia was a household name as a seminar presenter. She holds a BA in economic history. MA in journalism, and MBA in finance headlining stand-up and actor, with starring roles in comedy sketch favourite Full Frontal, nighttime (University of Chicago, where she was taught by Nobel Laureate Merton Miller and graduated talk show In Melbourne Tonight and comedy panel show, Beauty and the Beast. Julia also starred in in the top 15 percent.). Mary writes a Q&A personal finance column in the Weekend Herald and the Melbourne run of the hit Broadway musical ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!’ As a discusses personal finance issues with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ every second Thursday. For 16 stand-up comedian, Julia has featured in every major comedy festival in the world, taking to the years she wrote an investor column, which ran in the Dominion Post, Christchurch Press, Waikato stage with Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. From Comedy Festival Galas to Times and other newspapers. Mary is also a director of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL). the Prime Minister’s Midwinter Ball, Julia’s infectious humour is universally loved. Julia is the co- She lives by the sea near Auckland. host of Network Ten’s hit reality show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! with Dr Chris Brown. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation GENERAL NON-FICTION HARLEQUIN NON-FICTION

THE QUOKKA’S GUIDE ONE LAST DANCE TO HAPPINESS EMMA JANE HOLMES

ALEX CEARNS A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping Meet the Quokka. memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, for readers of Adam Kay Manuscript available and Amy Schumer.

Meet the Quokka. Miniature marsupial, tourist attraction and the happiest animal on the planet. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could Unique to Rottnest Island and small areas of the West Australian coast, these cute little critters no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned have featured in more selfies than the Kardashians – no pouting necessary, just an adorable smile! to her other dream – dancing on stage as a showgirl – and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jane kept Madison a secret. Madison kept Emma Jane an even bigger one. Featuring stunning photography from award-winning Alex Cearns, uplifting quotes and surprising facts, The Quokka’s Guide to Happiness is a gorgeous compilation sure to bring a cheeky little grin But what happens when death touches the neon world of the strip club? And sex - in the form of to anyone’s face. a cute co-worker – encroaches on the funeral home? Could the answer be life, lived in the day, because that's the only day you have? Emma Jane Holmes' debut will take you into the mortuary, cemetery and crematorium – and behind the scenes in night clubs - and answer all the questions you never wanted to ask …

PRAISE ‘A beautiful insight into two industries we’re all curious about, full of warmth and wit’ – Carly Findlay OAM, author of Say Hello ‘Meet Australia’s most outrageous mortician … her stories are deadly’ – news.com.au ‘Emma Jane Holmes shines a beautiful light on love, death and connection’ – Samantha X, author of Hooked

Alex Cearns of Houndstooth Studio is an award-winning animal photographer who lives in Emma Jane Holmes has spent most of her adult life working in death care, and her passion for writing WA. Her previous books were Zen Dogs, Perfect Imperfection and For the Love of Greyhounds. led to the publication of her blog, Heels and Hearses, which amassed readers worldwide. The popularity Houndstooth Studio has over 150,000 social media followers worldwide. of her adventures in the funeral home surprised her, landing a book deal. The blog has since been unpublished, the stories to be found exclusively in the book you hold now. Rights Held: World English and translation When not working with the dead, Emma Jane could be found on stage as an exotic dancer, trying Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) to be sexy. She attempted to maintain a divide between the two worlds but the adult industry was as fascinating as the funeral home and is the backbone to her strength and character today. Dancing is still an important part of her life; often attending pole fitness classes pretending she doesn’t know all the tricks, and wearing sequins during the day, just because. Emma Jane has left the city and mortuary behind her, currently living on the Mid North Coast of Australia studying a Bachelor of Arts.

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MISSING PERSONS THE ALTAR BOYS STEVE BRAUNIAS SUZANNE SMITH

Twelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a Boys with everything to live for … collection of true crime writing by New Zealand’s A community betrayed … The whistle-blower award-winning master of non-fiction. priest who paid the ultimate price

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Former journalist Murray Mason, found dead in the Auckland Domain; the mysterious death Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class of Socksay Chansy, found dead in a graveyard by the sea; the tragic disappearance of backpacker community in Newcastle, Australia. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went Grace Millane, victim of public enemy #1; the enduring mystery of the Lundy family murders … on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, and Steven These are stories about how some New Zealanders go missing – the wrong person in the wrong to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. place at the wrong time. But their lives came to be burdened by secrets kept and exposed. Glen discovered that another priest was sexually abusing boys and reported the offender to police, breaking his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. His decision to give evidence regarding the cover-up of clerical abuse at a landmark trial ended in tragedy. Meanwhile, Steven was fighting his own battle to overcome a traumatic past, a battle that also ended in tragedy. Ensuing investigations revealed that at least 60 men in the region had taken their own lives. What had happened, and why were so many of those men from the three Catholic high schools in the area? By six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith, The Altar Boys is the explosive expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation. Focusing on two childhood friends, their families and community, this gripping story is backed by secret documents, diary notes and witness accounts, and details a deliberate church strategy of using psychological warfare against witnesses in key trials involving paedophile priests.

Steve Braunias is a well-known writer who works for the New Zealand Herald, serves as books Suzanne Smith is a six-time Walkley Award- and two-time Logie award-winning journalist. Her 27-year editor at Newsroom, and is life president of the Hamilton Press Club. He has won over 50 career in journalism includes senior editorial roles at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, including national writing awards and is the author of 10 books, including Civilisation (winner of the on Foreign Correspondent, Background Briefing, Radio National, ABC News, and Radio Current Affairs. 2013 NZ Post award for best book of non-fiction) and The Scene of the Crime, published by She was the senior investigative reporter and producer at Lateline on ABC TV reporting stories on the HarperCollins in 2015. cover up of clerical abuse, which helped trigger the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia. She has also written for Crikey and The Australian, and held various Rights Held: World English and translation roles in the commercial media. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) TRUE CRIME TRUE CRIME

STALKING CLAREMONT BARRENJOEY ROAD BRET CHRISTIAN NEIL MERCER & RUBY JONES The gripping true story of the notorious Claremont serial murders and Australia’s longest 1978. An idyllic beachside community. A series and most expensive investigation to catch the of abductions and rapes. So what happened to killer. Trudie Adams? Manuscript available Manuscript available

In the space of just over a year in 1996-7, three young women disappeared from Claremont, The disappearance of 18-year-old Trudie Adams while hitchhiking home on Sydney's northern an upmarket suburb in central Perth. When two of the young women were found murdered, beaches in 1978 left her family and community devastated. When police began to investigate, the Australia's longest and most expensive investigation was established. More than twenty years dark underbelly of the so-called 'insular peninsula' was exposed, where surfers ran drugs home later, an unlikely suspect was arrested based on forensic evidence that also linked the murders from Bali, teenagers hitchhiked everywhere due to the lack of public transport, gangs of men to two previous vicious rapes. Stalking Claremont, by local newsman Bret Christian, is a prowled the beaches and the roads, and predators abducted and raped countless young women, riveting story of young lives cut short, a city in panic, an investigation riddled with error, and a crimes rarely reported or investigated. surprising twist that absolutely no one saw coming. Inspired by the award-winning #1 podcast and TV series and containing new revelations never previously revealed, Barrenjoey Road is the gripping expose of why the case was never solved. It takes us all the way to the top, from a criminal perpetrator with a lifelong record and links to organised crime who was never formally accused, to police corruption at the highest level.

Bret Christian has been a newsman all his working life, beginning his career on the Perth Daily Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Neil Mercer has been a broadcast and print News, and working in Melbourne and Sydney before returning to Perth to start his own suburban journalist for more than 40 years. He has reported in the Canberra bureau of The Sydney Morning Post Newspapers group at the age of twenty-eight. By coincidence the territories his newspapers Herald and for News Corp in New York. In 1988 he joined the ABC's Four Corners, where he won service were the hunting grounds for three separate serial killers, fuelling his interest in this a Walkley for his profile of convicted Whiskey Au Go Go killer James Finch. He has worked on mysterious human act of evil. His search for answers led him to unearth many extraordinary Seven Network current affairs program Witness and Nine's 60 Minutes. He is the author of Fate, injustices, some of which he helped put right. Bret has been a commentator on numerous episodes about the Belanglo State Forest murders. of the ABC television documentary program Australian Story that have examined injustices in Ruby Jones is an award-winning broadcast and digital journalist. Her stories have appeared on the his home town. He lives by the sea at Cottesloe with his partner, Jane, where they have raised six ABC's flagship TV current affairs programs 7.30 and Lateline. She has worked as the news host of children and more pets than he can count. He is still a reporter. triple j's breakfast program, and for the ABC's national reporting team.

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ONE PAN PERFECT EVERYDAY FRESH DONNA HAY DONNA HAY

Donna Hay returns with her new, gorgeously luxe From Australia's bestselling and most trusted hardcover cookbook One Pan Perfect, to make life cook comes a stunning new book featuring super- simple, easy and delicious for her millions of fans. fresh, super-fast recipes to help you feel nourished and energised … and ready to savour life. Manuscript available August 2021 Manuscript available October 2021| 240pp | 265x215mm Hardback | ISBN 9781460760482 224pp | 265x220mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460758120

Donna loves to make it easy for home cooks. Her stunning new cookbook, One Pan Perfect – 'One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I still cook at home. The answer is yes. Absolutely. As featuring over 120 recipes for simple, easy, no-fuss deliciousness which only need one pot, pan, often as possible.' tray or bowl – will take you from the kitchen to the table in no time at all, and make your whole There are days when it feels as though there's barely time to eat dinner, let alone prepare it. Donna family happy knows on days like these, we all need a little Everyday Fresh in our lives. We all want to create delicious meals packed with flavour and everything that's good for us, with a minimum of fuss. And Onechapter five Pot Onechapter four Dish that's exactly what Donna Hay delivers. 'Simple made special' is the foundation of almost every recipe Donna has ever written. She's all about the classics, but also about a flexible, fresher approach to eating. She's constantly on the lookout for ways to make something easier, healthier, quicker or a little more on-trend - and she also loves a cheat, a quick-fix or anything that can be made in one bowl, that still tastes great. 'If I can create a dish that makes someone feel better because it's mouth-wateringly delicious, packed with nourishing vegetables, or helps them bring a little more balance to their life - that's success!' balsamic pot roast chicken peach aperol spritzini all in one crispy baked tacos upside down pavlova

Donna Hay is Australia’s favourite and most trusted home cook, and an international food- publishing phenomenon. Donna’s 27 books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, been translated into 10 different languages, and her television cooking shows have brought her signature style to life for viewers in more than 14 countries. In Australia, her recent books have dominated the bestseller charts, with Fresh and Light (2012) selling 202,000, The New Classics (2013) selling 160,000, Life in Balance (2015) selling 114,000 and Basics to Brilliance (2016) selling 106,000 copies to date. Donna Hay is a household name. She is editor-in-chief of her own magazine (that’s reached more than 730,000 readers) with a digital version that’s been the number one of its kind in Australia. In addition, her food range is stocked in supermarkets nationally. She is also the working mum of Donna Hay is Australia’s favourite and most trusted home cook, and an international food- two beautiful boys. publishing phenomenon. Donna’s 27 books have sold more than six million copies worldwide, Books by Donna Hay include: Basics to Brilliance Kids; Basics to Brilliance; Life in Balance; The been translated into 10 different languages, and her television cooking shows have brought her New Easy; The New Classics; Fresh and Light; Simple Dinners; A Cook’s Guide; Fast, Fresh Simple; signature style to life for viewers in more than 14 countries. Seasons; No Time To Cook; Off the Shelf; Instant Entertaining and The Simple Essentials Collection. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: German (Grafe and Unzer), Dutch (Uitgeverij Unieboek | Het Spectrum), US, Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) UK and Canada (Harper360), Italian (Guido Tommasi Editore)

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WHERE THE RIVER BENDS PIE MAKER & CO JIMMY BARNES & TASTE.COM.AU JANE BARNES Recipes, ideas & inspiration for your PIE Jane and Jimmy Barnes invite you to enjoy MAKER, AIR FRYER, SAUSAGE ROLL family recipes and stories from their new MAKER, WAFFLE MAKER, JAFFLE MAKER cookbook, Where the River Bends. and TOASTED SANDWICH MAKER.

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Inspired by the food they love and the legendary feasts they share at home with family and friends, Has there ever been a kitchen appliance that we’ve loved as much as the pie maker? It’s taken our Where the River Bends features recipes and stories from the kitchen table of Jane and Jimmy Barnes. kitchens by storm. At the same time, our air fryers and sausage roll maker recipes are quickly gaining Besides making music, Jimmy and Jane have become unlikely social media stars, sharing their love all-time favourite status, while the jaffle maker and waffle maker have been on our must-have of cooking on Instagram and YouTube and garnering legions of foodie fans. Since March 2020, their rotation list for years. daily online videos have attracted over 100 million views. In Pie Maker & Co you’ll find every recipe you need for all your favourite appliances. With 100 With stunning photography and featuring 60 of Jane's favourite recipes – for breakfasts and light recipes covering both sweet and savoury, this is your go-to cookbook where every dish is as easy as … lunches, Thai meals and pasta classics, easy everyday dinners and delicious veggie sides, grilled foods well … pie! and barbeques, spectacular Sunday feasts and roasts, and delectable sweets – Where the River Bends Pie Maker & Co includes recipes for the: is the Barnes's cookbook of treasured recipes and stories gathered and shared around the table over a Pie maker family's lifetime. Sausage roll maker Air fryer Jaffle maker Waffle maker From pie maker caramel custard filled doughnuts and pie maker chicken kiev patties, to cheesy maple bacon jaffles and dim sim sausage rolls, there are loads of great recipes to cook up for family and friends. Plus, there are tips on how to adapt a recipe for your appliance, nutritional information and reviews from home cooks just like you.

Jimmy & Jane Barnes are the first couple of Australian rock & roll. After 40 years Taste.com.au is Australia’s #1 food site and is home to more than 50,000 recipes. The Taste.com. together during which Jimmy has enjoyed seventeen #1 albums, they are still blazing au Top 100 cookbook series is curated by taste’s food experts, each cookbook features Australia’s trails. Over the last year their 'at home' online performances attracted over 100 million most-loved and most-cooked recipes for every day and every occasion. The stunning photography views on social media and their latest collaboration is a family cookbook which brings brings the food to life with every turn of the page – you can almost taste it. The taste.com.au guarantee. people back into their lounge room. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360) Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) COOKERY & LIFESTYLE COOKERY & LIFESTYLE

THE ALL-IN-ONE MY DARLING LEMON COOKBOOK THYME: EVERY DAY TASTE.COM.AU EMMA GALLOWAY

A collection of Australia’s favourite and easiest Over 100 vegetarian recipes, flavour-packed + ONE-POT, ONE-PAN and ONE-TRAY recipes gluten-free. from taste.com.au Manuscript available Manuscript available April 2021 | 250pp | 245x190mm July 2021 | 256pp | 254x203mm Hardback | ISBN 9781775541592 Paperback | ISBN ISBN 9781460759929

Looking for an easier way of cooking your weeknight meal? All-in-one cooking is the answer. Spiced pumpkin snacking cake, Pea, mint + halloumi fritters, Mushroom + lentil lasagne, and Whether you’re in the mood for an easy one-pot casserole, a sticky chicken and veggie tray bake or Roasted strawberry + ginger ‘ice cream’ are among the beautiful, nourishing, simple-to-make and perhaps a set-and-forget slow cooker dinner, The All-in-One Cookbook has you covered with more absolutely delicious recipes celebrated in Emma Galloway’s third book from her home kitchen. than 100 recipes for everyday dinners and even a chapter with your favourite desserts turned into Everyday food should be quick and easy, using readily available ingredients and simple techniques. one-pan delights. Over years working as a chef and as a mother of two, Emma has designed tips and tricks to make Cooking everything together or ‘all in one’ not only has the benefit of less washing up, but also cooking simpler through planning ahead and using ingredients that are easy to swap out. Dotted usually has minimal prep time, so you can just bundle all the ingredients into your pot, pan or slow throughout My Darling Lemon Thyme: Every Day, you will find ‘anything’ recipes to suit your tastes cooker, then let it bubble away. and whatever ingredients you have to hand. All the recipes are vegetarian, flavour-packed and gluten Taste.com.au’s ALL-IN-ONE COOKBOOK is a collection of the top-rated, most-cooked and free – recipes you can trust, for every season, every day. must-know tips you need to create sensational meals and desserts in one-pot, one-pan, one-tray or PRAISE: a slow cooker. This collection is the best of the best one-dish wonders for: TRAY BAKES, STEWS, CASSEROLES, SOUPS, ROASTS and DESSERTS. ‘A book full of generous, vibrant food. As nourishing as it is delicious. I want to cook it all.’ – Anna Jones’ Every Day is just the kind of cook book I long for! Full of simple, nourishing food with big flavours 15 5 minutes minutes rry prep to prep cu lam y ke zucc Super tasty and was really perfect that I actually want to make.’ – Naomi Devlin, author of River Cottage Gluten Free d d for a quick dinner – love it! sip20 re b ee hin sp i

shanksThis aromatic lamb is slow-cooked in a slightly sweet broth of coconut water and punchy spices. alfredoGot 10 minutes up your sleeve? With only seven ingredients, serves 6 prep 15 mins cook 3 hours 20 mins this creamy low-carb ‘spaghetti’ is ready in a flash. 1 tbs coconut oil Preheat oven to 160°C/140°C fan forced. Heat the serves 4 prep 5 mins cook 5 mins 6 (about 300g each) French trimmed 1 coconut oil in a large flameproof casserole dish over Cook’s lamb shanks medium heat. Lightly season lamb. Cook, in 2 batches, tip 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil Heat the oil and butter in a large saucepan over 270ml can coconut cream turning, for 6 minutes or until browned. Transfer to 15g butter medium-high heat until butter is foamy. Add the zucchini 100g (½ cup) Thai red curry paste a bowl. Discard fat from pan. 2 x 250g pkt zucchini noodles 1noodles. Use tongs to toss occasionally, for 1-2 minutes Cook’s (use gluten-free curry paste, Scoop the thick cream off the top of the coconut cream You can make the 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped or until slightly wilted. Use tongs to transfer to a plate. tip if needed) 2 and add to pan over low heat. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes shanks in advance 100g cream cheese, chopped Add the garlic to the pan. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute 15g roasted belacan shrimp paste, or until the mixture splits. Add the curry paste and cook, and freeze in an 1 tbs thickened cream 2 or until aromatic. Add the cream cheese, cream and To make this finely chopped stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the shrimp paste, palm sugar, lime airtight container 20g (¼ cup) finely grated parmesan, 60ml (¼ cup) water. Reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring often, vegetarian, omit 15g palm sugar, finely chopped leaves, star anise and lemongrass. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute for up to 3 months. plus extra to serve for 3 minutes or until mixture is smooth. Stir through the the parmesan or 3 kaffir lime leaves, torn or until aromatic. Stir in tamarind, fish sauce and remaining Defrost overnight, parmesan and season. Add the zucchini and use tongs use a vegetarian- 2 star anise coconut cream. Cook for 1 minute. Stir in coconut water and then bake for to toss to combine. Serve with extra parmesan. friendly cheese. 1 lemongrass stick, white part only, onion. Return lamb shanks to the pan. Bring to the boil. 40 minutes and halved lengthways Cover dish. Transfer to the oven. Bake, turning the serve with rice 1 tbs tamarind puree 3 shanks halfway, for 2 hours or until almost tender. Bake, and herbs. Nutrition (PER SERVE) 1 tbs fish sauce uncovered, for a further 1 hour or until the sauce reduces CALS fat sat fat protein carbs 600ml pure coconut water slightly and the meat is falling off the bone. 232 21.4g 11.3g 7g 2.5g 1 large red onion, cut into thick Heat the rice following packet directions. Remove and wedges discard some (not all) of the fat from the surface of the 450g pkt microwave long-grain 4curry, if desired. Serve curry with rice, sprinkled with basil white rice and coriander. Fresh Thai basil leaves and coriander leaves, to serve Nutrition (PER SERVE) CALS fat sat fat protein carbs 548 28g 15g 35g 38g

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Taste.com.au is Australia’s #1 food site and is home to more than 50,000 recipes. The Taste.com.au Emma Galloway is the bestselling author of My Darling Lemon Thyme and A Year in My Real Food Top 100 cookbook series is curated by taste’s food experts, each cookbook features Australia’s most- Kitchen. She’s also a former chef, photographer and creator of the award-winning food blog My loved and most-cooked recipes for every day and every occasion. The stunning photography brings Darling Lemon Thyme. Her work has appeared on Oprah.com and Food52 and in The Guardian, the food to life with every turn of the page - you can almost taste it. The taste.com.au guarantee. among others. She was the recipient of the Tui Flower Award for Best Recipe Writing at the 2019 NZ Food Media Awards. She writes and takes photographs for a regular column in Cuisine Rights Held: World English and translation magazine and lives in Raglan, New Zealand, with her husband and two children.

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SLOW COOKER CENTRAL NOW FOR READY, SET, SLOW! SOMETHING SWEET PAULENE CHRISTIE MONDAY MORNING COOKING CLUB 160 all-new recipes from Australia’s slow- cooking queen. There’s something about the Jewish community and cake … The irrepressible, unstoppable Manuscript available women of the Monday Morning Cooking Club are back, with the very best, much-loved 352pp | 234x153mm and most delicious sweet recipes curated and Paperback | ISBN 9780733340949 perfected from Jewish homes across the world.

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‘I love finding new ways to prepare meals and desserts with slow cookers that others might The unstoppable women of the Monday Morning Cooking Club have been on a mission to uncover, never have imagined possible. In fact, there’s nothing better than creating amazing and delicious curate, honour and celebrate the very best, treasured, and most delicious sweet recipes from the recipes that are simple enough that anyone can have success with them first time – that’s what Jewish community in Australia and from around the world. Alongside these precious recipes, they makes them feel good, so it makes me feel good too!’ – Paulene Christie tell heartwarming and poignant stories of survival, loss, love, family and community. Paulene Christie is passionate about slow cookers. She knows everything there is to know about cooking in slow cookers – and she shares this passion and endless enthusiasm with her engaged PRAISE FOR THE MONDAY MORNING COOKING CLUB community of half a million followers on the Slow Cooker Central Facebook page, and through ‘Having this book at home is pure cosy joy’ – Nigella Lawson her bestselling and much-loved series of cookbooks. ‘The Monday Morning Cooking Club is a remarkable excursion into the realm of comfort food. You Never one to rest, Paulene has been busy in her kitchen testing, tasting and exploring the many just want to eat everything’ – Yotam Ottolenghi Ready, Set, Slow! surprising possibilities that slow cooking offers the home cook. The result is – ‘Food from the home is my ultimate, especially when it has been tried, tested and loved by the a collection of 160 all-new recipes that you and your family will love. Organised into easy-to- Monday Morning Cooking Club’ – Bill Granger navigate headings that reflect the main ingredients, making it super simple to plan your family meals, this collection boasts delicious food for every occasion and flavours from all around the world. Best of all, every recipe is easy to follow and includes readily available ingredients so you will save time, money and stress in the kitchen.

Slow-cooking internet sensation Paulene Christie is a busy working mum with a passion for Merelyn Frank Chambers, Natanya Eskin, Lisa Goldberg and Jacqui Israel from Sydney’s Jewish sharing new and exciting recipes for the slow cooker. She now has more than half a million community started coming together as friends every Monday morning to cook their favourite members in her Facebook group Slow Cooker Recipes 4 Families, and a hugely successful website, recipes and talk about food. Three words became their mantra: they wanted to SHARE the stories Slow Cooker Central. Her page is so popular she has a team of six to help her administer the and recipes of their community, INSPIRE people to preserve their recipes, and GIVE all the thousands of recipes and comments that are posted each day. Paulene lives in Queensland with her profits to charity. They published their first book, The Monday Morning Cooking Club in April husband and three young children. 2011, and have never looked back.

YATES GARDEN GUIDE WRITING IN THE SAND ANZ EDITION MATT GARRICK YATES & ANGIE THOMAS The powerful and fascinating story of how Our bestselling practical gardening book fully one band from Australia's Top End took the revised and updated. international music world by storm, and the song that became an anthem for First Nations Manuscript available July 2021 people everywhere.

This new edition of the ever popular Yates Garden Guide has been fully revised and updated to Words are easy, words are cheap help today’s gardeners tame big backyards, create stylish retreats, tend productive and decorative Much cheaper than our priceless land plantings, and get the most out of smaller spaces. But promises can disappear With chapters on planning gardens, choosing decorative plants, growing trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables and lawns, the new Yates Garden Guide provides details on more than 1000 exotic and native plants, Just like writing in the sand advice on soils, climate, planting, feeding and maintaining gardens, and comprehensive problem- From Yothu Yindi's 1992 ARIA Song of the Year, 'Treaty' solving charts to help you identify and deal with all kinds of pests and diseases. Sometimes rock n roll can explode from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Sections on water-saving gardens, community gardens, keeping chooks, encouraging bees, growing Hall of Fame inductees, Yothu Yindi – the breakthrough band of blackfellas and whitefellas from native plants, kitchen gardens and keeping healthy indoor plants have been expanded and updated the far north of Australia – were just fun-loving kids jamming together to create some of the to cater for modern living arrangements, in apartments and smaller spaces, with increased awareness coolest new music in the country. Then it all changed. After singer Mandawuy Yunupingu penned of the goodness of homegrown and environmentally friendly growing. the hit song 'Treaty' with Paul Kelly in 1990, Yothu Yindi shot up like a meteorite, out of Arnhem Full of comprehensive, reliable and practical gardening advice for experienced green thumbs and Land and into the hearts of kids across Australia and then the world. keen beginners, Yates Garden Guide is the essential companion for every gardener. Funny, poetic, heartfelt and steeped in the smells, sights and unique rhythm of East Arnhem Land, Writing in the Sand by Yothu Yindi's official biographer Matt Garrick brings to vivid life one of Australia's most original bands as well as Indigenous Australia's campaign for a treaty. Based on extensive interviews with members and fellow travellers and featuring unseen pictures from the band's archives, this is a must-read for anyone curious about Australian pop music, politics and Aboriginal culture – all sewn together by one of the most exciting bands of our time.

Yates is the number-one bestselling gardening brand in Australia and New Zealand. In 1895 Matt Garrick is an award-winning writer and journalist currently based in Darwin. Formerly Arthur Yates saw the need for a publication that answered gardeners’ questions so he wrote the features editor at the NT News, he has lived and worked extensively in East Arnhem Land, for the first Yates Garden Guide, a comprehensive gardening book that is still published more than 125 ABC, as a freelancer and as the editor of the local paper, the Arafura Times. years later. Garrick has been following Yothu Yindi's story since his dad took him to see the band play in Angie Thomas has been a horticulturist for more than 25 years, is passionate about the many Sydney's Centennial Park as a kid. He has written about the band extensively, formed close benefits of gardening, and about teaching and inspiring gardeners. She is also mad about growing working relationships with them and their families and has worked as the band's media advisor food, flowers and filling her house with indoor plants. and official biographer.

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LAWSON BANKS GRANTLEE KIEZA GRANTLEE KIEZA

The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and A rich and rollicking biography of one of enduring legacy of an Australian icon. Britain’s most colourful and celebrated scientists.

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Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and Explorer, naturalist and president of Britain’s Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks was a larger-than-life truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary character best known for his promotion of science. In 1768 Banks joined Captain James Cook’s Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce expedition to the South Pacific. The 30,000 specimens he brought back generated enormous independent women, foreign fathers and larrikin mates. interest, as did the sometimes racy written account of the journey, which chronicled his frequent But Henry Lawson’s own life may have been the most compelling saga of all, a heart-breaking amorous exploits. Banks passion for the new and unusual flora of Australia led him to recommend tale of brilliance, lost love, self-destruction and madness. Grantlee Kieza, the author of critically Botany Bay to parliament as an excellent place for a penal settlement, despite the fact the soil was acclaimed bestselling biographies of such important figures as Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, poor and there was no fresh running water, but he later became the foremost expert on everything Lachlan Macquarie and John Monash, reveals the extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring Australian. By award-winning bestselling writer Grantlee Kieza, Banks is a rich and rollicking legacy of an Australian icon. biography of one of Britain’s most colourful and celebrated scientists.

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Award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza has held senior editorial positions at The Daily Award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza has held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Courier-Mail. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Courier-Mail. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the author of fifteen acclaimed books, including the recent bestsellers Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly, author of fifteen acclaimed books, including the recent bestsellers Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly, Monash, Sons of the Southern Cross and Bert Hinkler. Monash, Sons of the Southern Cross and Bert Hinkler.

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WHOLE NOTES HOME TRUTHS ED AYRES DAVID WILLIAMSON

Life Lessons Through Music.

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How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives Williamson is widely recognised as Australia's most successful playwright and over the last fifty to know ourselves? years his plays have been performed throughout Australia and produced in Britain, United States, One way is through music – learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because Canada and many European and Asian countries. music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know A number of his stage works have been adapted for the screen, including The Removalists, Don's ourselves more intimately, more honestly, and more clearly with every note. And with every note, Party, The Club. Travelling North. Emerald City, Sanctuary and Brilliant Lies. music offers us a hand to the beyond. David Williamson has won the Australian Film Institute film script award five times, for Petersen Through music, we can say what we didn’t even know we felt. (1974), Don's Party (1976), Gallipoli (1981) Travelling North (1987) and Balibo (2009) and has This book is an ode to music, and a celebration of humanity’s greatest creation. It is not a call to won twelve Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Awards. He also wrote the screenplay for Phar Lap arms, but a call to instruments. (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously, (1983) receiving a nomination for best screenplay from the Writer's Guild of America. In music, Ed Ayres finds answers to the big questions life throws at us. Using personal anecdotes – including those relating to his transition from Emma to Ed – and observations from teaching and He wrote the screenplay for Showtime's On the Beach which won the Australian AFI award for learning music, Ed finds hope in our desire to become whole, with some simple music lessons best miniseries and was nominated for the Golden Globe awards in the U.S. He also wrote the along the way. screenplay for the HBO miniseries A Dangerous Life, about the fall of the Marcos regime in the Philippines which made the critics top ten list of the year in both New York and Los Angeles. In 2015 he was awarded the Special NSW Premier's Literary Award for lifetime achievement.

Ed Ayres is a writer, musician and broadcaster. He was born on the White Cliffs of Dover and David Williams is a Welshman, born in Bridgend, and educated at Hereford Cathedral School and began playing music when he was six years old. He studied music in Manchester, Berlin and St John’s College, Oxford, where he took a history degree. After service as a naval officer, he ran a London, played professionally in the UK and Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 2003. Ed is large London advertising agency before becoming a full-time writer in 1978. His well-established the presenter of ABC Classic’s Weekend Breakfast. Mark Treasure mysteries have twice been short-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Ed has written three other books – Cadence, about his journey by bicycle from England to Daggar Award. Hong Kong with only a violin for company; Danger Music, describing his year teaching music Rights Held: World English and translation in Afghanistan; and Sonam and the Silence, a children’s book about the importance of music. Ed’s books have been shortlisted for several prestigious awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Ed was born Emma, and transitioned just before his fiftieth birthday. Better late than never.

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A WEEK IN SEPTEMBER HOUSE OF KWA PETER REES & MIMI KWA SUE LANGFORD Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting Through a precious cache of WWII letters, true story spanning four generations. a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and Manuscript available survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. June 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733341137 Manuscript Available

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Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, The dragon circles and swoops … a tiger running alone in the night … a time capsule of sorts - hundreds of letters, all written by his father, Scott Heywood, to his Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her mother, Margery. Scott, a POW on the infamous Burma Railway, wrote letters almost daily to hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? his young wife, on scraps of paper that had to be hidden from guards. These letters tell us of an enduring love – and also, intriguingly, they tell us how Scott managed to make it through the The collision was over the estate of Mimi's beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long most brutally testing circumstances. ago. In an attempt to understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa. Scott’s story bears an uncanny resemblance to another story, coincidentally happening 7000 kilometres away. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, was rounded up with his family and sent to One of a wealthy silk merchant's 32 children, Mimi's father, Francis, was just a little boy when the Auschwitz in September 1942.”Everything can be taken from a man but one thing,” Frankl wrote, Kwa family became caught up in the brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of Hong Kong “the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to during World War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now independent and choose one’s own way.” Scott Heywood and Viktor Frankl, on opposite sides of the world, had seen successful older sister Theresa. There he met and married Mimi's mother, a nineteen-year-old with the accepted structures and certainties of their worlds turned upside down. Each faced his own an undiagnosed, chronic mental illness. Soon after, 'tiger' Mimi arrived, and her struggle with the psychological challenge; each responded to the life force of survival. past – and the dragon – began … Frankl’s story has been told, not so that of Scott Heywood and his journey on the Burma Railway. Riveting, colourful and often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic family drama spanning four This is the singular story of one man, one relatively ordinary man, and his war. But much, much generations, and an unforgettable story about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for more than that, it’s a book about how Scott Heywood is a shining example of how love, optimism her freedom and independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally putting them and determination can get you through even the very worst, most physically and mentally to rest. Throughout, her inspiration is Francis's late older sister, the jet-setting, free-spirited Aunt challenging times. Theresa, whose extraordinary life is a beacon of hope in the darkness.

PRAISE Peter Rees has had a long career as a journalist covering federal politics and as an author specialising in Australian military history. His books include Anzac Girls; Desert Boys; Lancaster Men; Bearing ‘Revelatory and remarkable’ – Trent Dalton Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean; and The Missing Man: From the Outback to Tarakan, ‘Memorable and vivid’ – Richard Glover the Powerful Story of Len Waters, Australia’s First Aboriginal Fighter Pilot. ‘Lands with a thump in your heart’ – Lisa Millar Sue Langford has been a practising psychologist for more than thirty years, the past twenty of which have been in private practice, working in both clinical and organisational roles. She has provided Mimi Kwa is a writer, reporter, news anchor and keynote speaker. She has been a regular face on consultancy services to the Department of Defence and other government agencies over the years. Australian TV for twenty years, owns a retail homewares store and medical wholesale brand and Her particular interest is in trauma management. sits on two leadership boards. As a keynote speaker she tells her unforgettable personal story in an engaging and entertaining way, inspiring others with her resilience, vulnerability and humour. She Rights Held: World English and translation is married with four children and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LAPSED BECKY LUCAS MONICA DUX

From critically acclaimed comedian Becky Losing your religion is harder than it looks … Lucas comes a funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, Manuscript available enemies and figuring it out that establishes her as one of today’s most original comedy writers. April 2021 | 304pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733340819 Manuscript available

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There’s no such thing as a perfect life, but there are perfectly hilarious moments. The best stories are From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in her primary school play to blaspheming, often about the lowest points in our lives - the soul-crushing jobs, the bad boyfriends, the terrible undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her relationship to the Catholic Church changed holidays, the betrayals and heartbreaks. These are the stories I tell people to make them like me, profoundly over a decade. Yet even at her wildest, Monica’s Catholic identity endured, rearing its but, more importantly, they’ve helped me learn how to like myself. unwelcome head at the most unlikely moments. So this book is a collection of thankyous and acknowledgments: Then, on a family trip to Rome, her young daughter suddenly expressed a desire to be baptised. * Thank you to an ex-lover who marvelled at the fact he could get hard with me, even though I Dux was forced into a reckoning with her Catholic upbringing, and found herself speaking to wasn’t up to his usual standard. canon lawyers, clergy, theologians, abuse survivors – even a self-proclaimed Jesus. She also had to ask herself some tricky questions: How did it make me who I am? What are the upsides? Is it * Thank you to the coked-up real estate agent who, while lecturing me and my friend about the wrong to invent sins in confession? How do I feel about the Church now I’m aware of the crimes importance of travelling, fell down a flight of stairs. committed in its name? And am I still a paid-up, card-carrying member? Or am I … lapsed? * Thank you to the woman who approached me after a gig and told me she hoped her daughter With the wry humour of David Sedaris, the curiosity of David Rackoff and the razor-sharp wouldn’t end up like me. observations of Nora Ephron, Lapsed is the story of one woman’s attempt to exorcise the ghost of You’ve all taught me that you can’t control who comes into your life or what happens to you, but her religious upbringing, and to answer two particularly thorny questions: Is being Catholic like a you can decide just what it is you take from them. blood group? And if so, is it possible to get a total transfusion?

Becky Lucas is a comedian who has spent years writing on TV shows and performing stand-up Monica Dux is a writer and columnist. Since 2013 she has written the popular column on page comedy. She most recently sold out her solo show at the Sydney Opera House, performed at 3 of the weekend section, Spectrum, in The Age. Monica is a frequent guest at writers' festivals, Montreal’s prestigious Just for Laughs festival and made her US TV debut on Conan – the first a sought-after panellist, and a popular speaker. She is a regular on 'Modern Dilemma' on Radio Australian woman to do so. As a writer, Becky’s credits include co-writing for Matt Okine’s semi- National's Life Matters, and on Melbourne radio, including Raf Epstein's ABC Drive programme autobiographical comedy The Other Guy(Season 1) for Stan, as well as Josh Thomas’s Emmy- and as co-host of The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine. nominated show, Please Like Me. And now if it’s okay with everyone, she’s decided to write a book. Monica was a founding board member of the Stella Prize, and currently sits on the board of the Rights Held: World English and translation Feminist Writers Festival. In a former life, she researched and taught history at the University of Melbourne and worked at Melbourne University Publishing and on The Monthly magazine. Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360) Monica is the author of Things I Didn't Expect (When I Was Expecting) (MUP, 2013), co-author of The Great Feminist Denial (MUP, 2008), and editor of the anthology Mothermorphosis, (MUP, 2015).

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12 RULES FOR LIVING TWO SHAKES OF A BETTER LIFE A LAMB’S TAIL REVEREND BILL CREWS DANIELLE HAWKINS

A straight-talking, uplifting and inspiring guide Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, to living a better life and becoming a better illuminating diary of a year in the life of a human being - through compassion, tolerance, New Zealand farm vet. acceptance and love – from one our very best, most authentic and genuine people, the Manuscript available Reverend Bill Crews. April 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm Manuscript available Paperback | ISBN 9781775541585

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He's been named one of Australia's 100 most influential people, yet he's often considered a thorn With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs in the side of his own church. He's a fierce campaigner against poker machine gambling yet it was bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to the proceeds of a horse race that first established his soup kitchen that now feeds thousands across constipated dogs, weddings to weaning lambs, daffodils to ducklings to droughts, each season the city. His Sunday-night radio show is the most widely listened to across the nation, but he often brings new challenges and delights. Sometimes it's exhausting but it's almost always a lot of fun – makes the news himself. He is a 75-year-old minister and regularly inspires news article headlines anyway, it's all part and parcel of the life of a Kiwi mother, farmer's wife and vet. that read: 'What if we were all like Bill Crews?' He is the epitome of compassion and often controversial. He is Bill Crews, the charismatic shepherd of Ashfield in Sydney's inner-west. Bill has spent his entire adult life in the service of others, giving a voice to the truly voiceless, be they prostitutes on the streets of Sydney's Kings Cross, refugees fleeing ISIS in a shanty-town camp in Northern France, or Korean women abused during WWII. Bill Crews has spent an unfathomable amount of hours on the frontline of life with the marginalised, disenfranchised and the abandoned. This book is for the secular and the spiritual alike; it's for those who believe and those who don't, won't or can't. It's a much-needed and timely manifesto on being a better human and how to pay it forward. It's bottled wisdom – to help us all live a better life.

Rev. Bill Crews AM is a much-loved Australian. He has given over 3 million meals to the poor and Bestselling NZ author Danielle Hawkins lives on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga with her homeless. He has also taught thousands of underprivileged kids to read so they can break free of the husband and two children. She works part-time as a large animal vet, and writes when the kids are poverty-cycle. His work has been recognised by organisations as varied as The Rotary Foundation at school and she's not required for farming purposes. She is a keen gardener, an intermittently keen and Ernst & Young. In addition Rev. Crews has been included in the National Trust's list of 100 cook and an avid reader. Her other talents include memorising poetry, making bread and zapping "National Living Treasures" and he has been named as one of Australia's 100 most influential people. flies with an electric fly swat. She tends to exaggerate to improve a story, with the result that her He also hosts a weekly radio show which is broadcast across Australia. husband believes almost nothing she says.

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YOU’VE GOT TO BE LOUD KIDDING: A SHEDLOAD TANA DOUGLAS OF WINE & A FARM FULL OF GOATS What goes on tour stays on tour – unless you’re the first woman roadie in the world. TODD ALEXANDER Manuscript available Not quite nailing life on the land. February 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm Manuscript available Paperback | ISBN 9780733340901

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They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former At just 15, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock ‘n’ roll in the 1970s, taking a job with city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later Yes, they make lovely wine and have built beautiful accommodation, and they’ve even learned how the US to work for a who’s who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, to look after their rescued farm animals. But they didn’t really count on Mother Nature getting occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you’re the only woman in the road crew and involved. the #metoo movement is still 40 years away. Drought, bushfires, sick animals, failed crops, heatwaves, enormous changes in the two industries Whether wrangling Iggy Pop across Europe, climbing trusses while seven months pregnant, they rely on to make a living, snakes, the unstoppable breeding of peafowl, insurmountable debts drinking shots of JD with Bon Scott backstage at Wembley, or donning a tailor-made suit to do and broken machinery … lights for Elton at Windsor Castle, Tana did it all. Just when they think they’re on top of things, the land throws another few hurdles their way. But Loud is rock ‘n’ roll like you’ve never seen it before, by a woman who not only survived the all- with fierce determination to succeed, willingness to evolve, and their ever-present senses of humour, male world on the road but climbed to the top and lived to tell the tale. these boys might be down for the count but they aren’t quite ready to throw in the towel just yet. AC/DC * Deep Purple * ELO * Elton John * Ice Cube * Ice-T * Iggy Pop* INXS * Iron Maiden Or are they? * Lenny Kravitz * Neil Diamond * Ozzy Osbourne * Patti Smith * Pearl Jam * Rage Against the Machine * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Santana * Status Quo * Suzi Quatro * The Offspring * The Police * The Runaways * The Who * Vanda & Young and more!

Todd Alexander is the author of the bestselling memoir Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Tana Douglas was 15 when she took her first job as a roadie with AC/DC. Now recognised as the Called Helga, which was longlisted for the Australian Independent Bookseller Awards, two novels world’s first female roadie, Tana has worked alongside some of rock ’n’ roll’s biggest names in a – Pictures of Us and Tom Houghton – and eight non-fiction books includingHow To Use eBay, Get career spanning three continents and more than 30 years. Tana currently resides in Los Angeles, Your Business Online Now, Everyday Internet at Any Age and The New eBay. Todd began his career California. Loud is her first book. at Dymocks Sydney before becoming Head of Buying at Dymocks Franchise Systems. He then spent 12 years at eBay, becoming a leading online expert and helping thousands of Australians Rights Held: World English and translation sell online. In 2012, he threw away his corporate career to run a vineyard and accommodation business with his partner, Jeff, in the Hunter Valley of NSW.

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HONEY BLOOD THE ERRATICS KIRSTY EVERETT VICKI LAVEAU-HARVIE

Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this ‘I thought if I was going to die I should write is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly some things down.’ compressed energy of an explosive device. Manuscript available Manuscript available February 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm 224pp | 210x135mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460758830 Paperback | ISBN 9781460758250

Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no does, laughed at the goal she’d set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know. two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. When Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki and her sister travel to At the age of 16, Kirsty’s cancer returned. Faced with a devastating prognosis, she threw herself their parents’ isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents into as much as she could – friends, school, drama, sport, even a life-writing course. As she said, for many years, Vicki and her sister are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years, Vicki’s ‘I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down.’ mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has Against the odds, Kirsty survived. She never achieved gold at the Olympics, but she learned a lot managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and about people, attitudes and resilience. making him a virtual prisoner in his own home. Vicki and her sister have a lot to do, in very little time, This is a book about growing up different when you want to be the same; sparking hostility where to save their father. And at every step they have to contend with their mother, whose favourite phrase there should be support; and testing the capacity of love to its utmost. It’s wise and unflinching and during their childhood was: ‘I’ll get you and you won’t even know I’m doing it.’ hopeful, and you won’t feel the same after reading it. A ferocious, sharp, darkly funny and wholly compelling memoir of families, the pain they can inflict and the legacy they leave, The Erratics has the tightly coiled, compressed energy of an explosive device PRAISE – it will take your breath away. 'Everett is a born writer, her compelling story shot through with the extraordinary sensitivities of Winner of the 2019 Stella Prize, winner of the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize, shortlisted for the childhood' – B+P magazine 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. 'Honey Blood is one of the most exuberant, life-affirming memoirs I have ever read. The fact that it is about the uncompromising reality of childhood cancer, makes it all the more extraordinary. Read PRAISE it and be utterly bowled over by Kirsty Everett's astonishing courage, honesty and cheeky humour' ‘If someone had told me this manuscript was by a young Margaret Attwood or Alice Munro, – Patti Miller, author I wouldn’t have been surprised. The bleak beauty of the Canadian landscape set against this wry 'This refreshingly straight-talking account of adolescent leukaemia goes beyond pain to a fuller, memoir of a daughter’s journey with her sister through their parents’ decline into ill-health and wiser, deeper understanding of what really matters when everything you hope for hangs by a thread’ dementia is an extraordinary read’ – Candida Baker – Caroline Baum, author

Kirsty Everett defied the odds and survived two bouts of cancer, aged nine and sixteen. She completed Vicki Laveau-Harvie was born in Canada, but lived for many years in France before settling in her HSC as well as a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and Aboriginal Studies. In 2006 Australia. She has three passports and treasures the unique perspective this quirk of fate affords Kirsty received an award for Outstanding Voluntary Service from NSW Governor Marie Bashir. her. In France, she worked as a translator and a business editor, despite being a specialist in 18th- She has been a motivational and educational speaker since the age of 14. Her public speaking was century French literature. In Sydney, she lectured in French Studies at Macquarie University. After kickstarted by Professor Darcy O’Gorman Hughes (the founder of the Children’s Cancer Institute of retiring, she taught ethics in a primary school. Australia) at UNSW. Kirsty continues to this day to be an Ambassador for Kids Cancer. Rights Held: World English (excl. US & Canada) and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: US (Knopf), Canada (Penguin Random House) Rights Licensed: German (Bastei Lubbe) SPORT HISTORY & POPULAR SCIENCE HISTORY & POPULAR SCIENCE

BLOOD, SWEAT IN PLAIN SIGHT AND STEEL ROSS COULTHART

CURTIS MCGRATH An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right Soldier, champion, great Australian – an there, in front of our eyes … extraordinary story of triumph over tragedy. Manuscript available Manuscript available September 2021 July 2021 | 352pp | 210x135mm November 2021 | 304pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460759066 Hardback | ISBN 9780733340789

In 2012, combat engineer Curtis McGrath was serving in the Australian army in Afghanistan Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since when, in the line of duty, he stepped on a mine. Instantly, both his legs were blown off. Still mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand’s Kaikoura mountains when he was a conscious but aware that he would bleed out and die within minutes, McGrath, as the unit's chief teenager. The 1978 sighting is just one of thousands since the 1940s, and yet research into UFOs first-aid officer, directed his comrades to apply tourniquets and administer an IV and morphine. is still seen as the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists. Then, as he was stretchered to a helicopter, fearing he would never see his family again, he joked In 2020, however, after decades of denial, the US Department of Defence made the astonishing that he planned to become a Paralympian. admission that strange aerial and underwater objects frequently reported and videoed by pilots and Just months later, he was up and walking on prosthetic legs, motivated by the opportunity to tracked by sensors are real, unexplained, and pose a genuine national security concern. march with his unit during their welcome home ceremony. Then he took up kayaking and the Compelled to investigate, Coulthart has embarked on what’s become the most confronting and sport gave him a new sense of purpose. In 2013, he and his father, Paul, paddled 1,000 kilometres challenging story of his career, speaking to witnesses, researchers, scientists, spies and defence and from Sydney to Queensland to raise funds for Mates4Mates, which supports current and former intelligence officials and insiders. What he has found suggests that the world is on the cusp of Defence Force members who have suffered physical or psychological wounds as a result of their extraordinary technological breakthroughs and cultural revelations. service. A year later, McGrath captained the Australian team at the inaugural Invictus Games in London, founded by Prince Harry for wounded, injured or ill veterans. Within four years of his Bizarre, sometimes mind-blowing and utterly fascinating, In Plain Sight tells a story that’s largely injury, McGrath had won gold at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in the K1 200-metre KL2 escaped the radar of mainstream media coverage but has been there all along. Now it’s time to Paracanoe event. observe what’s in front of our eyes. Now an ambassador for the Invictus Games and passionate about the healing power of sport, McGrath is an 8-time World Champion gold medallist with his eye on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. At last he's ready to tell his extraordinary story.

It's hard to imagine a greater challenge than serving on the front lines in Afghanistan. But Ross Coulthart is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer. Previously an overcoming adversity has become a defining characteristic not just of Curtis McGrath's career investigative reporter on news and current affairs program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine and with the Australian Defence Force, but of his life. McGrath was hit by a mine blast on duty and chief investigations reporter for the Sunday Night news program, Coulthart has won five subsequently lost both his legs. But even that could not hold him back. He has since become one prestigious Walkley journalism awards, including the most coveted top award for Australian of the country's most successful Paralympic athletes, winning Gold as a canoeist in the 2016 Rio journalism, the Gold Walkley. His broadcast television investigative journalism has also won the de Janeiro Games, and becoming an ambassador for the 2018 Invictus Games. Now he has his top broadcast award, a Logie. sights set on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Curtis's life is a lesson in not just how to face setbacks, Ross is the co-author of bestselling books Dead Man Running and Above the Law, both exposes of but triumph over them. Curtis lives on the Gold Coast with his partner, Rachel, an ER doctor. organised crime in Australian and international outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as Charles Bean, Lost Diggers, Lost Tommys and Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) HISTORY & POPULAR SCIENCE HISTORY AND POPULAR SCIENCE HISTORY & POPULAR SCIENCE

RUM FLASH JIM MATT MURPHY KEL RICHARDS

Australia and its formation – through the The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, distorted view of a rum bottle. writer of Australia’s first dictionary and first true-crime memoir. Manuscript available Manuscript available June 2021 | 352pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460759424 May 2021 | 320pp | 210x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781460759769

Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn’t hungover? If you wear 'togs’, tell a 'yarn’, call someone 'sly’, or refuse to 'snitch’ on a friend then you are Would the Eureka Stockade have been different if the rebels weren’t pissed? talking like a convict. How were prisoners to get drunk if Macquarie closed the only pub in the goal? These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin And why should sailors under fourteen be deprived of their sixteen shots of rum per day? Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. These are just some of the questions raised in Matt Murphy's account of Australia’s colonial Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux – conman, pickpocket, absconder and history. Brimming with detailed research and irreverent character sketches, Rum looks at not just thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England – was so drawn to a life of crime he was how much was drunk in colonial Australia (a lot!), but also the lengths people went to to get their transported to Australia … not once, but three times! hands on it, the futile efforts of the early governors to control it, and the often disastrous and/or absurd consequences of its consumption. Vaux’s talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary Those consequences aren’t just in our past. Murphy goes beyond foundation stories to look at of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to the legacy our love affair with alcohol has created, from binge drinking to lockout laws and from England to be published. prohibition to urinating on the parliamentary carpet. Kel Richards tells Vaux’s story brilliantly, with the help of Vaux’s own extraordinarily candid So here’s to Rum, for making bad decisions look like a good idea at the time. memoir of misdeeds – one of the first true-crime memoirs ever published. Kel’s book combines two of his favourite subjects: the inventiveness, humour and origins of Australian English, and our history of fabulous, disreputable characters. With echoes of The Surgeon of Crowthorneas well as Oliver Twist, Flash Jim is a ripping read – especially for those who appreciate the power of words and the convict contribution to our idiom.

At school, Matt Murphy failed English and couldn’t see the point of history. He became a firie and Kel Richards is a veteran Australian author, journalist and broadcaster. In a long career he has hosted has been serving in Sydney’s inner city for 33 years. He is now also a part-time historian and teacher, the ABC’s flagship national daily radio current affairs show AM, worked as a senior journalist and tolerating the attitudes of kids towards history that he used to share. His previous book, Weight of associate producer with ABC television current affairs, and hosted his own talkback shows on Evidence, is about what was the longest civil court case in New South Wales. Matt’s younger self commercial radio. Kel is currently a Sky News contributor and a writer for The Spectator Australia. He would be aghast that he is now writing history books but be consoled by the absurdist voice old Matt famously presented News Radio’s regular ‘Wordwatch’ segment on ABC (till 2010) and now writes a has achieved. Matt also can’t believe he has to write his own bio. column on language for Australian Geographic.

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DR KARL’S LITTLE BOOK DR KARL’S SURFING OF CLIMATE CHANGE SAFARI THROUGH SCIENCE SCIENCE DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI

Australia's favourite science guru explains the Australia's favourite science guru returns with facts about climate change – and how we can a new haul of extraordinary stories from our fix it. incredible Universe – includes pop-up Dr Karl holograms! Manuscript available Manuscript available March 2021 | 144pp | 198x128mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733341298 192pp | 260x210mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733340338

Is the planet reeeeeally warming up? Dr Karl is surfing the Universe for all that's gnarly, awesome, weird and wonderful. But carbon's natural, isn't it? Why is sharpening a pencil in space a risky business? How could planes fly without fossil fuels? What makes a sunset red and not blue? What's a pteropod and why should I care? How far would the Earth's viruses reach if you laid them end to end? Kelp? How can it help? Which animal grows an anus every time it needs to poo? One of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's jobs as Australia's most popular science communicator is to answer Find out how spiders can fly and count, whether 5G networks are safe, why we're running out of people's questions about climate change. sand, and the answer to the Question on Everyone's Lips - how to make the best coffee. Now, in this never dull, easy-to-understand guide Dr Karl explains the science of climate change Plus loads more, including pop-up Karl holograms! and how we can fix it (we can!). So when your uncle says (again) that it's a load of hooey (or an So take a surfing safari with Dr Karl and get ready to Hang Ten – or wipe out. illuminati conspiracy), you can keep your cool and talk like a boss about why it's getting hotter and what we can do about it. ALSO FROM ** Contains bonus augmented reality -- mini Dr Karls pop up with even more info! ** DR KARL

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM just loves science to pieces, and has been spreading the word in print, on Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM just loves science to pieces, and has been spreading the word in print, on TV and radio and online for more than thirty years. The author of 45 books, Dr Karl is a lifetime TV and radio and online for more than thirty years. The author of 45 books, Dr Karl is a lifetime student with degrees in physics and mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery. He student with degrees in physics and mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery. He has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer, has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer, taxi driver, TV weatherman, and medical doctor at the Children's Hospital in Sydney. Since 1995, taxi driver, TV weatherman, and medical doctor at the Children's Hospital in Sydney. Since 1995, Dr Karl has been the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. In 2019 he was Dr Karl has been the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. In 2019 he was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science, of which previous recipients awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science, of which previous recipients include Margaret Mead, David Attenborough, Bertrand Russell and David Suzuki. include Margaret Mead, David Attenborough, Bertrand Russell and David Suzuki.

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FLESH MADE NEW THE GOLDEN MAZE JOHN RASKO & CARL POWER RICHARD FIDLER

The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: Beloved broadcaster and bestselling author of does it work and will it save us? Two experts Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler look at the hype. is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. Manuscript available Manuscript available February 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733340147 596pp | 210x135mm Hardback | ISBN 9780733335266

In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution broke out across Europe. Excited by this galvanising For decades, we’ve been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we’ve historic, human, moment, he travelled to Prague, where a decrepit police state was being overthrown been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then by crowds of ecstatic citizens. His experience of the Velvet Revolution never let go of him. the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We’re still waiting. Thirty years later Fidler returns to Prague to uncover the glorious and grotesque history of Europe’s This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to soothe the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, most instagrammed and uncanny city: a jumble of gothic towers, baroque palaces and zig-zag lanes Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and the writer-historian, Carl Power, take us that has survived plagues, pogroms, Nazi terror and Soviet tanks. on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field. They expose the dirty little secrets that the Following the story of Prague from its origins in medieval darkness to its uncertain present, Fidler hype-merchants prefer to ignore – the blunders and setbacks, confusions and delusions, tricks and does what he does so well – curating an absolutely engaging and compelling history of a place. You lies. It’s a history rife with colourful characters. You’ll meet Alexis Carroll, who discovered how to will learn things you never knew, with a tour guide who is erudite and inquisitive, and the best cultivate cells in a test tube. Celebrity surgeon, scientific genius, and Nazi sympathiser, he opened storyteller you could have as your companion. the field of modern cell science with an experiment so bogus it blocked the way forward for the next 50 years. You’ll meet Don Thomas, who developed bone marrow transplantation – the first PRAISE successful stem cell therapy – but only after a miserable decade in which all of his patients died. Alongside true stem cell pioneers, you’ll meet charlatans who cooked their data and claimed fake ‘Fidler’s passion and love for the ancient city infuses every word, pours off every page, and if you’ve cures – sometimes with fatal consequences. never been interested in Prague, it will find a way into your heart after reading this book.’ - Favel The Age Is there any good news? Which of the many promises of stem cell research have been kept? And Parrett, what of the future? Rasko and Power insist that we can only know where we’re going if we have a ‘In The Golden Maze, Richard Fidler covers acres of rich history with a light and loving touch.’ sense of where we’ve been. Their history study tears down the hype surround stem cells in order to - The Canberra Times reveal what’s still worth hoping for. ‘Rollicking story of Prague.’ - The Standard

John Rasko AO is a haematologist who heads both the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Writer-broadcaster Richard Fidler is the author of the best-selling Ghost Empire and co-author of Centenary Institute, University of Sydney, and Cell & Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Saga Land with Kári Gíslason. Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He frequently appears on radio and television programs to talk about Fidler presents 'Conversations', an in-depth, up-close-and-personal interview program. stem- cell research, medical tourism, scientific fraud and related matters. John delivered the 2018 'Conversations' is broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio and podcast all over the world to Boyer Lecture series for the ABC. millions of listeners. Carl Power is a writer in the history of philosophy and medicine. An eternal student and sometimes In another life Richard was a member of Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony Allstars lecturer, he has explored the concept of life throughout the ages, from the earliest creation myths to (DAAS), which played to audiences all over the world. the latest fantasies of the post-human future. He and John Rasko have co-authored both popular and academic articles on stem cell research, regenerative medicine, medical ethics and the politics of science. Rights Held: World English and translation

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THE BASIS OF MENTAL FITNESS EVERYTHING PAUL WOOD ANDREW RAMSEY The bestselling author ofHow to Escape from Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood Atomic Bomb. on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life's challenges Manuscript available Manuscript available 384pp | 234x153mm Hardback | ISBN 9781460755235 June 2021 | 304pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9781775541677

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, there was the 20th century’s great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom. It was through involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively that search for the inner workings of matter that a unique friendship was forged, a partnership that we can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier with our lives – regardless defied academic orthodoxy and altered the course of history. of what the universe has in store. Centred on the inter-war years – within the ivy clad walls of Cambridge University’s famed We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We've definitely all experienced it, and none Cavendish Laboratory, amid the windswept valleys of north Wales, and in the industrial heartland of of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical Birmingham – The Basis of Everything is the story of the coming of the atomic bomb, and how the stress: it is the mind's way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform is challenging unlikely union of two scientists – Ernest Rutherford, the son of a New Zealand farmer, and Mark our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign we are pursuing our potential. When we Oliphant, a peace-loving vegetarian from a tiny Australian hills village – would change the world. experience stress, we have a choice: we can heed that signal and give up – after all, we're meant to It was a heartfelt, enduring partnership, born at the University of Adelaide’s modest physics stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can recognise the discomfort we are department and then flourishing further in the confines of the Cavendish before ultimately driving feeling is simply nature's way of enabling us to rise to the occasion. the famed Manhattan Project, which produced the world’s first nuclear weapons, unleashed to In Mental Fitness you will learn how to: such devastating effect on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical fitness PRAISE • Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your mental fitness ‘In The Basis of Everything, journalist Andrew Ramsey has succeeded in telling a story so detailed • Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get fitter) and compelling that even knowing where it leads does not distract from the journey’ – The Sydney • Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it doesn't mean you don't Morning Herald feel the struggle) • Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and unnecessary misery

Andrew Ramsey is a journalist and author who has written about cricket for more than 20 years. Paul Wood is a doctor of psychology, motivational speaker, leadership and development specialist, In addition to having his work published in numerous newspapers around the world including The media personality, husband and father. His area of expertise is in helping people pursue their Australian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Hindustan Times and The Hindu, he has been potential while developing the mental toughness and resilience necessary to flourish through a contributor to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. adversity. At 18 Paul was in prison and his life was completely off the rails. Paul uses his journey from delinquent to doctor to illustrate the process of transformational change and how we can Rights Held: World English language strive to be the best version of ourselves possible. Rights Held: World English and translation HEALTH & WELLBEING HEALTH & WELLBEING

CRUISING THROUGH LIVING LIGHTLY CALAMITY NICOLA TURNER BEV AISBETT The busy person’s guide to mindful A book for anyone and everyone who finds consumption. themselves going through big change, hard times, bad luck or tough sh*it. A book for right Manuscript available now, as it turns out. January 2021 | 224pp | 250x190mm Paperback | ISBN 9781775541509 Manuscript available

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From Bev Aisbett, Australia's bestselling author with decades of experience helping people through How do you reduce your impact when you don’t want to compromise your lifestyle? anxiety, depression and panic attacks, Cruising Through Calamity is a much-needed new book How do you live lighter when you’re juggling the motherlode of life? about helping people manage their emotions through big changes, hard times and big challenges. How can you become more mindful of how and what you’re consuming? So whether you're struggling during the pandemic or navigating a personal crisis, if you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed and your emotions are getting the better of you, then this is the book you In a previous career, Nicola Turner’s job was to convince us to buy more – and now she uses this need right now to help you cruise through calamities, big and small. insight to help us consume less. With her unique ability to keep it real, Nicola shares how her family now lives with less stuff, less waste and less impact. It’s made life simpler, saved heaps of Written in Bev's clear, simple and straightforward style, using straight talk and humour to defuse, time and money and created a healthier, happier family. entertain, explain and inform, this is a most timely and topical book to help anyone feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, difficult feelings and tough circumstances. Filled with do-able ideas and practical hacks, Living Lightly is for everyday people who want to simplify their life and reduce their impact but feel they’re just too damn busy. It’s all about making simple changes that work for you – and not letting perfect get in the way of good.

Bev Aisbett is an author, illustrator, cartoonist and counsellor. She has had over 11 books Nicola Turner is a mother, author and behaviour-changer working with businesses, councils and published, most notably the national bestsellers Living with It: A Survivor's Guide to Panic Attacks individuals to change the way they think about sustainability. Nicola’s fascination with human and Taming the Black Dog: A Guide to Overcoming Depression. Over the last 15 years, Bev's behaviour and consumption began after a successful career in the world of fast-moving consumer freelance illustrations and cartoons have appeared in the major press and numerous community goods. She now runs a social enterprise called Mainstream Green, leveraging her corporate and corporate publications. An experienced counsellor, Bev has designed a unique recovery insights to create a movement where people are more mindful of how they consume and the waste program designed to educate people about anxiety and provide them with the tools with which they create. Now a converted minimalist and aspiring zero-waster, Nicola is all about creating a to build their own recovery, just as Bev herself has done. The Art of Anxiety workshop (formerly ‘GreenfulnessTMmovement’, a mindful approach to what people buy, the waste it creates, and how Working with IT) has since guided thousands of people in the 'art' of effectively managing anxiety they can feel empowered to make better choices that don’t compromise their lifestyles. and related conditions since 1998. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: US and Canada (Harper360) Rights Licensed: US, UK and Canada (Harper360) Bev’s previous titles have been published in Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, and the US. PARENTING PARENTING

PARENTAL AS ANYTHING THE FIRST MAGGIE DENT THREE MONTHS

A common-sense guide to raising happy, healthy TRESILLIAN kids – from toddlers to tweens. Gentle, expert advice for the parents of newborns, from Australia’s largest and most Manuscript available trusted parent-support organisation. July 2021 | 320pp | 234x153mm Manuscript available Paperback | ISBN 9780733341793 May 2021 | 256pp | 234x153mm Paperback | ISBN 9780733339769

How much screen time should you let your children have? How and when do you talk about sex? The first twelve weeks of a baby’s life can be a challenge for any new parent. Tresillian’s What can you do when your kid throws a tantrum? Why should you let your children just play? experienced, expert advice will guide you through, with practical tips and real-life stories, set out Maggie Dent, queen of common-sense parenting, has answers to your real-world parenting in an accessible format for tired brains. dilemmas. This easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of a newborn’s first twelve weeks, including: Focusing on the most engaged-with topics from her popular ABC Parental As Anything podcast, • How to help your baby grow and develop Maggie tells us what the experts have to say, relates the experiences of other parents, and offers her • Understanding your baby's ways of communicating own reassuring guidance to provide practical solutions to the challenges parents and caregivers face today. • Helping to settle and soothe This book will give you the means to be the parent you'd like to be, and help you in your quest to • Responding to your baby’s needs for love, feeding and sleeping raise happy, healthy, thriving, resilient children. • Common health concerns • Meeting your own needs for love, care and support With dedicated information for fathers and other caregivers, and key sections on coping with lockdowns and parenting in the age of social media, this is a book packed with reassurance, guidance and ideas.

Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators, with a Tresillian is Australia’s oldest parenting support group, with centres in most Australian states and particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience. She is a popular speaker and NZ, and an expansion into regional areas. Its team of nurse-specialists offers families guidance in educator, and the author of seven books, including the bestselling Mothering Our Boys (2018) and the early years of their child’s life, with practical advice on subjects such as sleep, feeding, toddler From Boys to Men (2020). She is also the host of ABC’s Parental As Anything podcast and a regular behaviour and parents’ emotional wellbeing. contributor to Fairfax's Essential Kids website. Maggie is the mother of four grown-up sons, and an Expert writer Fran Chavasse is a registered general nurse, registered midwife and a child and family enthusiastic and grateful grandmother. She lives in the South Coast region of NSW with her good health nurse. She is also a senior nurse educator for Tresillian, with training in mental health. bloke, Steve Moutain, and their dear little dog, Mr Hugo Walter Dent. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360) SUBAGENTS SUBAGENTS

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Eliza Henry-Jones is the talented author of the celebrated novels In the Quiet and Ache. She has qualifications in English, psychology and grief, loss and trauma counselling. She is currently completing honours in creative writing – exploring bushfire trauma – and works in community services. She lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her husband and too many animals.

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